FIR has been lodged against Facebook and others in 'I hate Gandhi' group. Complaint has been filed by Amitabh Thakur, an IPS officer. The FIR says, that Facebook is a social networking site which is accessible to people globally.
A criminal case crime No 72/2011 under section 153, 153 A(1)(a), 153 A(1)(b), 153 A(1)(c), 153-B, 290, 504, 505 (1), 505 (2),506 IPC and section 66 A Information Technology Act 2000 has been registered against Facebook (USA) and others. Thakur says in his FIR that, various groups are formed on this website, one of these being 'i hate gandhi'. On this site, open abuses and dirty words are used against Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of our Nation. These words and abuses are of such nature that they are giving provocation with intent to cause riot when riot is not committed (sec 153 IPC), promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of communities and other grounds and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony (153A IPC), Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration (sec 153 B IPC), public nuisance (290 IPC), Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace (sec 504 IPC), criminal intimidation (sec 506 IPC) and using Information Technology for these purposes (sec 66A IT Act).
According to Thakur, he communicated with each member of the group individually to remove the undesired objectionable contents before filing FIR. His request was blatantly or deliberately turned down by the members of the group. Facebook headquartered at Pao Alto, California, U.S. has also been made an accused for having provided the requisite platform for dissemination of all these information, particularly when they had been requested by Amitabh Thakur some 20 days ago to get this group removed because of its hateful content. No required action has been taken by the site so far to either ban or block the group.
