India, June 2 -- A police complaint has been filed against a 30-year-old Kolkata resident, whose May 14 complaint led to the arrest of a 22-year-old law student for a social media post from Gurugram, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

Sharmishta Panoli, a law student and a social media influencer, was arrested by a team of Kolkata Police from Gurugram in Haryana on May 30 on charges of spreading communal hatred. She was produced before a Kolkata court and remanded in judicial custody till June 13.

Panoli's arrest on Friday night was made on a complaint filed by Kolkata resident Wazahat Khan Qadri Rashidi with the Garden Reach police station and ignited a political row, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticising Panol...