On Tuesday, the Kolkata Police arrested video blogger Roddur Roy from Goa on charges of abusing West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee during Facebook Live session over the KK concert death. “Roddur Roy has been arrested in Goa and will be brought to Kolkata on transit remand,” a senior Kolkata police official was quoted.
Team of Kolkata Police arrest vlogger Roddur Roy from Goa on charges of abusing West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee during Facebook Live session
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) June 7, 2022
According to the reports, Trinamool Congress spokesperson Riju Dutta on June 4 filed a police complaint at Chitpur police station against Roy for using derogatory remarks against CM Mamata Banerjee. The complaint stated that Roy during the Facebook Live session over the KK concert death made fun of Banerjee’s literary award.
He also criticized the West Bengal government over the death of singer KK after a concert in Kolkata on May 31. Dutta in his complaint stated that Roy was a repeat offender and had ‘maligned the state of West Bengal’ and ‘perennially uses derogatory remarks against our police force’. Reports mention that later Roy also posted a video on YouTube challenging the police to arrest him.
#RoddurRoy this person should be given award for speaking up against didi . One need guts to do this. I just hope he stays safe. Already FIR registered against him #TMC pic.twitter.com/gd2a7JYhdl
— Tani Shandilya (@tany_sha_says) June 5, 2022
Dutta on June 7 saluted the Kolkata Police for taking prompt action against Roy. “This Vile person Roddur Roy who recently abused our Hon’ble CM Mamata Banerjee and our Nat GS. Sh Abhishek Banerjee, Mayor Jb. Firhad Hakim and Sh Madan Mitra are arrested by Goa. I, Salute Kolkata Police for this prompt action”, he tweeted.
This Vile person #RoddurRoy who recently abused our Hon’ble CM @MamataOfficial , our Nat GS. Sh. @abhishekaitc , Mayor Jb. @FirhadHakim & Sh. @madanmitraoff is “𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃” from GOA !!
— 𝐑𝐢𝐣𝐮 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐚 (@DrRijuDutta_TMC) June 7, 2022
I, Salute @KPDetectiveDept @KolkataPolice from this prompt action 🙏🏻🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/dpSgDZ2Hjv
Roy is known for his controversial social media posts and YouTube videos making derogatory comments against politicians and leaders. Earlier in the year 2020, he had posted a video in which he was seen abusing PM Narendra Modi, the National Flag of India, and the country. “Go to hell PM Narendra Modi, Go to hell India. I need dopes”, he roughly said in the video.
This video is from 2020, where leftist Roddur Roy abused PM Modi and National Flag. No action was taken against him.
— Facts (@BefittingFacts) June 7, 2022
Few days back he tried to do same with CM Mamata Banerjee and MP Abhishek Banerjee and Kolkata police arrested him today from Goa.
*Headphones* pic.twitter.com/9d9UgmWYkC
No action was initiated against him after his disparaging video against PM Modi. Also, in the same year, the Kolkata Police had initiated an investigation against Roy, for allegedly hurting people’s sentiments by vulgar distortions of Rabindranath Tagore’s songs. He had shot to fame after these videos, in which he replaced the lyrics in Tagore’s songs with expletives, went viral on social media.
However, within days after the YouTuber had posted a nasty video criticising Mamata Banerjee over singer KK’s death, the vlogger had to pay the price, with the Kolkata Police hightailing it to Goa and arresting him.
