Anirban Roy Choudhury, a journalist from Silchar district of Assam, who runs a news website, was slapped with such a case in December 2021 over an editorial he had written. The FIR was filed by a member of the All Assam Bengali Hindu Association. The editorial had allegedly extended support to Pradip Dutta Roy, a politician from Barak Valley, who was booked under the same law a few weeks ago. Dutta Roy had been booked for asking the government to remove a hoarding written in Assamese and to replace it with one written in Bengali. Barak Valley of Assam, in which Silchar is located, is dominated by Bengali speakers. Bengali is the associate official language there.