LUCKNOW: A police complaint was lodged against Facebook and a Chandigarh-based editor of a Punjabi daily for allegedly posting obscene remarks against Hindu Gods and Goddess besides calling for burning Bhagwat Gita and describing the holy book as anti-women in Lucknow on Sunday.
Social activist Nutan Thakur lodged the complaint under IPC's various sections and the Information Technology Act (2000)'s section 66 A. The complaint named C I Chumber and Facebook Inc among others. The complaint alleged that Chumber, the Punjabi daily editor, had posted the remarks asking people to burn the Bhagwat Gita as women are "referred as 'pap yoni' (bad origin) in its chapter nine'', which he says is against the Indian constitution that gives them equal status. He has allegedly cited examples from Russia and said that the same shall be followed in India. The complainant accused him of abusing Hindu Gods and Goddesses including Lord Krishna and Brahma.
Thakur said that use of such language could cause riots and amounts to promoting enmity between communities, "doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony, imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration, public nuisance, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace , criminal intimidation and using Information Technology for the purpose''.
Earlier, Thakur's husband, Amitabh, an IPS officer, had lodged an FIR against a group called "I hate Gandhi". She had also lodged an FIR in Meerut against Facebook and others for posting "obscene stuff'' on Hindu Gods. She said that, despite repeated complaints, police had taken no action so far. "Facebook Inc, Headquartered at Pao Alto, California, USA has also been made an accused for having provided the requisite platform for dissemination of all these information, particularly when they had been overlooking such information despite repeated requests by many," she added.
Social activist Nutan Thakur lodged the complaint under IPC's various sections and the Information Technology Act (2000)'s section 66 A. The complaint named C I Chumber and Facebook Inc among others. The complaint alleged that Chumber, the Punjabi daily editor, had posted the remarks asking people to burn the Bhagwat Gita as women are "referred as 'pap yoni' (bad origin) in its chapter nine'', which he says is against the Indian constitution that gives them equal status. He has allegedly cited examples from Russia and said that the same shall be followed in India. The complainant accused him of abusing Hindu Gods and Goddesses including Lord Krishna and Brahma.
Thakur said that use of such language could cause riots and amounts to promoting enmity between communities, "doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony, imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration, public nuisance, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace , criminal intimidation and using Information Technology for the purpose''.
Earlier, Thakur's husband, Amitabh, an IPS officer, had lodged an FIR against a group called "I hate Gandhi". She had also lodged an FIR in Meerut against Facebook and others for posting "obscene stuff'' on Hindu Gods. She said that, despite repeated complaints, police had taken no action so far. "Facebook Inc, Headquartered at Pao Alto, California, USA has also been made an accused for having provided the requisite platform for dissemination of all these information, particularly when they had been overlooking such information despite repeated requests by many," she added.
