A journalist, Nilesh Sharma, was arrested in Chhattisgarh on the night of Tuesday, 2 March, after a complaint was lodged at the Civil Lines Police Station in Raipur stating that the accused was spreading malicious information about the ruling Congress party in the state.
The FIR was registered on the complaint of one Khilwan Nishad, a Congress worker. Khilawan said in the complaint Sharma was a member of 'Godi Media', a term coined for media sympathetic to BJP and RSS.
He added that there was an attempt to spread malicious information against the Congress party in the state, "The web portal Indianwriters is trying to draw a wedge among the party members through its column named 'Ghurwa Ke Mati'... the web portal is acting with a hideous agenda to spread negativity against the Congress party to weaken the hold of party over the public," the FIR read.