Roopa Divakar Moudgil, popularly known as D. Roopa, is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from Devanagere, Karnataka. She was the first lady police officer in the country to head the Cyber-Crime police division, in 2013.
The senior IPS officer made headlines in 2017 when she was transferred from her post as Deputy Inspector General Prisons just days after she found several irregularities in the jail where AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala was serving her term She alleged that Sasikala was enjoying VIP treatment at Parappana Agrahara central prison.
Interestingly, she had been transferred 41 times in 17 years till 2017. On Wednesday, she trended on social after her argument with a Twitter user over whether firecrackers are Indian on not.
The war of words between the IPS officer and the user, who goes by the handle ‘True Indology’, began with the former questioning the need for bursting firecrackers in Diwali. After a few replies, Twitter ended up suspending True Indology’s account.
How did it start?
The IPS officer had posted a status on Facebook on November 14 asking why some people object to a ban on firecrackers.
“Ban on crackers in Bengaluru is for this year alone, given COVID situation. Why can’t for one year we abstain ourselves from the use of crackers? Are we so hollow that our joy is dependent solely on crackers? There are many ways to celebrate Deepawali. Light diyas, meet people, exchange mithai…but no, adamant people only want crackers. How unreasonable!” she wrote in her post.
The post received several comments and many users were in agreement with her statement. But when the same post was shared on Twitter, many users said she should raise questions on the customs of other religions as well.
The post received several comments and many users were in agreement with her statement. But when the same post was shared on Twitter, many users said she should raise questions on the customs of other religions as well.
The tussle went on for several tweets, drawing the attention of other prominent Twitter users. After True Indology’s account was suspended, actor Kangana Ranaut questioned the founder of the micro-blogging site on the suspension of the account.
“When they don’t have answers to your questions they break your house, put you in jail, gag your voice, or kill your digital identity. Eliminating one’s digital identity is no less than murder in the virtual world, there must be strict laws against it,” Kangana tweeted.
As a result of reactions from Kangana and other social media users, #BringBackTrueIndology trended on Twitter.
Source: Times Now
