A college teacher of Guwahati, who had received death and rape threats on social media after a Facebook post over the terrorist attack on CRPF at Pulwama, has remained missing since Sunday morning.
Papri Banerjee, a teacher of Guwahati’s Icon Academy Commerce College, had posted a comment on her social media regarding the terrorist attack at Pulwama a day after the attack. While she condemned the attack in her post she also criticized the Indian Armed forces and their ‘atrocities’ on civilians in Kashmir Valley.
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Papri who was suspended by the college authorities on Saturday for her post, received death and rape threats on social media by different users, who had seen her post.
“Continuous rape, Lynch, and death threats in my inbox.. Assam Police should go back to the names in my previous FIR if any harm were to come over me tomorrow.. They would be solely responsible..,” she posted on the social media following the threats.
“I come here to work every day. Papri was not in her home since yesterday. Today I came around 2 pm but did not found Papri’s brother and father. I don’t know if they have gone somewhere looking for the daughter or somewhere else,” the domestic help of the family told Northeast Now on Monday at their home in the city’s Gandhibasti area.
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Papri lives there with her father and brother.
Papri was asked to be present in the Chandmari police station on Monday as there was a case registered against her under Section 505 of the IPC and Section 66 of the IT Act. However, till filing of the report she had not gone to the police station.
“She came here on Saturday and we asked her to leave after the initial questioning. We sent a police team to her house today but her father informed us that she was missing since yesterday. However, no one has lodged any missing complaint with the police so far,” said the Officer-in-Charge of Chandmari police station, Biren Chandra Deka.