Agartala, Oct. 26 -- Tripura Police have launched an investigation into an alleged defamatory social media post targeting Leader of Opposition Jitendra Chaudhury. The opposition CPI(M) has lodged a complaint with the police over sexually explicit images allegedly posted on Facebook targeting Chaudhury, claiming that the content was intended to tarnish his image.
Ranjit Bhowmik, secretary of the CPI(M)'s local committee in Srinagar, lodged a complaint at the Srinagar police outpost, seeking legal action against a Facebook user identified as Amit Debnath.
According to the complaint, the matter came to light after Chaudhury, who is also the CPI(M)'s Tripura state secretary and a member of its Politburo, posted a message in Bengali on October...