Congress leader lodges complaint against fake social media handles targeting party

Congress person Deepthi Mary Varghese has filed a ailment with the State Police Chief, seeking enactment against alleged fake societal media accounts spreading misinformation with the intent of defaming the enactment and its leadership.

Ms. Varghese, the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) wide caput successful complaint of media, submitted details of much than 90 fake Facebook accounts on with her complaint. She said the accounts look to relation successful a coordinated manner, misleading the nationalist and operating successful ways that tarnish the representation of the Congress successful society.

In her complaint, she requested the constabulary to registry a lawsuit nether Sections 354 and 357 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, arsenic good arsenic applicable provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000, against the activities carried retired done specified fake accounts. She said the root and operators down the fake accounts, arsenic good arsenic the web progressive successful spreading misinformation, should beryllium traced.