The Delhi Police has detained a 17-year-old Class 12 student from Srinagar for allegedly impersonating them and forging a senior officer’s signature to send fake notices to social media platform X, seeking the blocking of two organisations’ accounts, officials said on Wednesday.
The juvenile allegedly circulated the fabricated notices to popularise his own X account, they said. A senior police officer said they produced him before the Juvenile Justice Board.
The case came to light during a hearing before the Delhi High Court on November 6, when X informed the court that its internal investigation had found the notices purportedly issued in the name of Delhi Police to be forged.
The social media platform told the court that an impostor had fraudulently used the identity of Delhi Police to seek the blocking of accounts belonging to the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) and the Software Freedom Law Centre.
X also clarified that it did not block the accounts based on the purported notices.
Following the development, the Delhi Police Crime Branch registered an FIR against unidentified persons and launched an investigation. Officials said further investigation is underway to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the forgery and whether anyone else was involved.