108 social media accounts blocked for 'hate content'

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 9

As part of the crackdown ordered by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh against miscreants inciting public with hate content on organ harvesting, the state police have got 38 Facebook, 49 Twitter and 21 YouTube accounts/links blocked by the competent authorities for carrying out propaganda on Covid.

Besides, a total of 151 accounts/links of Facebook, 100 of Twitter, four of Instagram and 37 of YouTube have been reported to the authorities concerned. Over 121 FIRs have been registered so far at various police stations across the state.

DGP Dinkar Gupta said the state police’s Bureau of Investigations (BoI) had taken up the matter of blocking accounts/links of anti-national and anti-social elements with the Cyber Law Division, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, following which 108 accounts/links were blocked. Further action on the remaining accounts was awaited, he said.

Gupta said the competent authorities of the social media platforms concerned had also been requested to provide information of users. Suitable legal action would be initiated against the miscreants under the relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Indian Penal Code as soon as the user information was received, he added.