Animal rights association founder held for harassing women online
CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Police police on Sunday arrested the founder of Indian Centre for Animal Rights and Education (INCARE) on charges of gender-based online harassment of a group of women animal welfare volunteers for many weeks.
The accused, identified as Muralidharan Sivalingam, was booked under Section 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deals with acts intended to insult the modesty of a woman, and relevant provisions of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act and the Information Technology Act. Police said he was produced before a magistrate and remanded in judicial custody.
