State Congress on Saturday lodged a complaint with cyber cell of the State police department against a forged account of party president Sonia Gandhi on the social networking site — Facebook.
A delegation of the State Congress led by its general secretary Tanima Dutta called on Cyber Cell Inspector General of Police and handed over a memorandum complaining against forged account of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi on social networking site Facebook and upload of obscene pictures on it.
Dutta later in a statement said that the act on social networking site was considered as serious crime under Cyber Act and they had requested the IG Cyber Cell to take action against the person under the Act. He also urged the concerned authorities to register a case against those who have created this fake account and immediate steps to remove the forged account from social networking site.
The other members of the delegation were State Congress spokesman Ravi Saxena, members of the State communication team Bhupendra Gupta, Himanshu Rai and Rohit Nayak besides Ankush Morya, Abhinav Baroliya, Masood Beg and Nitesh Nema.
Dutta informed that the IG cyber cell has assured them that immediate and strict action would be taken against individuals who had created the fake account in the name of Congress president and the issue would be raised with the Facebook to immediately remove this fake account.
She said that this could be the handiwork of some perverted opposed to the Congress and did not rule out the possibility of involvement of activists of some political party in the act.