The Cyber Crime wing of the Chennai Police on Tuesday arrested Kishore K. Swamy, a self-proclaimed ‘political analyst’, for repeatedly indulging in slanderous campaign against women journalists and harassing them on social media. He was released on station bail by the police as he was unwell.
He was arrested following a series of complaints by woman journalists accusing him of trolling them with sexual innuendos, and vile abuse.
Based on one such complaint, the Cyber Cell had registered an FIR against him under sections 354D (Stalking), 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the IPC and section 4 (Harassment of Women) of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Women Harassment Act, 1998.
In 2013, Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) had written a letter to the then Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, calling her attention to the online harassment of a Chennai-based woman journalist, Kavin Malar. She had been subjected to character assassination and abusive messages on Facebook for over a month by Swamy.
Last July, Tamil Nadu Women Journalists Forum filed another complaint against him for harassing women journalists by posting obscenities on them on social media, especially Twitter.
