Bathinda man booked for uploading clip on Youtube

The Punjab Police have registered a case under Section 295-A (hurting religious sentiments) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act against a Bathinda resident for uploading a video clip of the assault on Kahan Singh Pannu on YouTube. "The case of cyber crime has been registered for hurting religious sentiments," a spokesman said here.

In the FIR lodged at an SAS Nagar police station, the accused has been identified as Baljinder Singh Kanakwalia of Kanakwal village in Bathinda district.

It is yet to be ascertained whether he had a mischievous intention behind uploading the clip or he did it only to make the incident public.

The footage showed that three of the four attackers were turbaned Sikhs, two of them baptised with flowing beards, and they kept beating Pannu even after the officer lost his turban in the melee.

It was Punjab Cooperative Bank managing director Kamaljit Singh Sangha who came to his rescue along with jawans of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). Sangha was accompanying Pannu and another official from the education department for overseeing the rescue operations.

Samajwadi Party leader files complaint against fake Facebook profile

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh minister for urban development Mohammad Azam Khan on Thursday said that he has filed a complaint with the director general of police against a fake Facebook account in his name on which inflammatory statements had been posted.

Khan informed chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Union minister for home affairs Sushil Shinde and called for immediate action.

Ramgarh student drowns while taking picture 'for Facebook'

RAMGARH: A student drowned on Monday in the Damodar river flash flood while he was taking photographs to upload on Facebook.

The dead, Shyam Sharma, was a resident of Golpar locality situated on the banks of the river. Sharma had recently passed his matric examination and was seeking admission in Chhotanagpur College. He used to take keen interest in surfing the internet and social networking sites like Facebook.

Sonu Sharma, his elder brother said, "My brother, along with his friends, went to the river to bathe. But, the flash flood caught his attention and he wanted to take his own photograph with the high waves of the river as the backdrop. Shyam asked his friends to click him riding the waves and he stood on a high rock in the middle of the river. But, the water level suddenly rose; drowning him."