A minor boy was arrested for creating fake profiles of eminent people and seeking favours on social media here on Thursday.
The Class-VIII boy impersonated personalities such as Health Minister Naba Kishore Das, BJP MLA Jayanarayan Mishra, senior Congress leader and Balangir MLA
Narasingha Mishra and Sambalpur Collector Shubham Saxena and deceived people on Facebook (FB).
“A minor boy pretended to be Ministers, MLAs and MPs on Facebook by creating fake accounts on Facebook. He would chat online with people on the ‘Friend List’ and ask them for mobile phone handsets and money,” informed Sambalpur SP Sanjeev Arora.
The arrested boy would be produced before a Juvenile Justice Board and is likely to be sent to a correctional home, police sources said.