Senior police officials have ordered an inquiry into the complaint and said appropriate action will be taken if anyone is found guilty.
In the same post, he also criticised chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and other ruling-party leaders over what he described as misuse of power. He alleged that the police had misused the established mechanism for seeking user information from social media platforms to identify a critic. “Police should be protecting people, not using their power to intimidate citizens for expressing political views.
The 34-year-old, who identifies himself as Jeet, said he was alerted by X on September 23 that the Bandra police had requested his name, phone number, email address and IP/location details in connection with a sextortion case registered on July 2. He said the request came four days after he criticised the Bandra police in an X post over their alleged action against a woman who had flown a kite in solidarity with Palestinian children on the occasion of Global Gaza Kite Weekend between September 11 and 15.
Jeet said he had no connection with the case cited in the police request. “I have the X notification, the data request sent by the police to X, the FIR cited by police and an English translation of the FIR,” Jeet said. People should be free to stand with Palestinians, criticise the government or the police without being afraid that the state will come after them,” he said.
