Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 20: High Court has directed the Incharge Cyber Cell to register FIR against the Facebook India Head.
The direction has been passed in a petition filed by Vivek Sagar who was cheated through an advertisement made on Facebook and was duped of an amount of Rs 20,700 by an online fraudster.
He had approached the Jammu and Kashmir Cyber Police Cell through a formal complaint mentioning that he was trapped by Facebook, Bajaj Finance, Quadrant Televentures, and others who ripped of his hard earned money amounting to Rs 20,700, by making the use of internet and SMS Communication services and thereby committing the offence under relevant sections of the IPC and IT Act, 2000.
Advocate Deepak Sharma who filed the petition submitted that as the Cyber Police did not take any action on his client’s complaint, they approached the local court under Section 156(3) CrPC seeking direction for registration of FIR against the accused person but the local court also left it open to the wisdom of the Police authorities to decide for the registration of the FIR.
The order of the local court was challenged by the petitioner in the High Court which ordered the police to file FIR against accused.
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