UP govt. official held for posting 'objectionable content’ on FB

February 05, 2013 07:26 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 11:40 pm IST - Agra

A government official was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly posting ‘objectionable content’ about Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Union Minister Kapil Sibal on social networking website Facebook.

Sanjay Chaudhari, a civil engineer with the State government, was booked under IT Act in Agra for uploading derogatory cartoons and posting objectionable comments on the two leaders, SSP Agra, SC Dubey said.

A case under relevant sections of IPC has also been registered against Mr. Chaudhari for trying to disturb communal harmony by making undesirable comments against a particular community, police said.

The engineer, who also runs an NGO, has pleaded innocence claiming that some unscrupulous elements uploaded the content after hacking his Facebook account.

In November last year, two Mumbai girls were arrested for allegedly writing objectionable comments relating to late Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray.

The arrests had sparked nation-wide anger among the civil society activists who had accused the administrations of misusing the IT Act.

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