The Delhi Police’s Crime Branch on Saturday registered a first information report about fraudulent notices sent in the department’s name to social media platform X, seeking the blocking of accounts of digital rights groups Internet Freedom Foundation and Software Freedom Law Centre, The Print reported.
The FIR was registered against unidentified persons under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita relating to forgery and impersonation of a public servant, as well as computer-related offences under the Information Technology Act, The Hindu reported.
The police have traced a 17-year-old in Srinagar as the alleged “imposter”, The Print reported.
On Friday, the social media platform told the Delhi High Court that an internal investigation had established that the notices were not genuine police communications and had been sent by an “imposter”.
The platform also assured the court that the accounts will not be taken down.
The court was hearing a petition filed by the two digital rights groups challenging the notices.
Following the platform’s submission, the court disposed of the pleas.
Double hoax
On October 30, the digital rights groups had gone public with purported legal notices they had received in the name of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, asking them to stop documenting and opposing the government’s content restriction orders.
The RSS has not officially commented on the notices but…
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