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.

Software Engineer arrested For create his female colleague Fake Profile On Social Networking sites

HYDERABAD: Cyber crime sleuths of the CID have arrested a 27-year-old US-based software engineer for harassing his female colleague by creating fake profiles on social networking sites and sending abusive content to her friends.

Police on Monday morning arrested Sai Kumarof Ram Nagar, a software engineer with an MNC at Hi-Tec City in Madhapur and based in the US, when he landed at the RGI Airport.

On June 20, the 27-year-old victim, who is a colleague of Sai Kumar, lodged a complaint with the cyber crime police alleging that someone had hacked her email account and sent mails with obscene content to all her friends and family members. She also alleged that her fake profiles were created on social networking sites and abusive and obscene content was circulated through them.

Based on her complaint, police registered a case (Crime No 56/2012) under sections 66 A, D and 67 of the IT Act, 2000.