A controversial post against Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has resulted into a case being registered against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The case has been filed at a court in UP’s Kannuaj district.
The lawsuit names 49 other people besides Zuckerberg, a PTI report reveals. Interestingly, Zuckerberg himself has not posted any defamatory post against Yadav. The FIR names him because the derogatory comments against the SP chief allegedly had been posted on his platform.
As per the PTI sport, Amit Kumar, a resident of Sarahati village in UP’s Kannauj district, had filed a case against Zuckerberg and 49 others for posting defamatory comments against Akhilesh Yadav. In his application before the court, Kumar has alleged that an attempt to tarnish the image of Samajwadi party chief was made on a Facebook page titled “Bua Babua”.
The term “Bua Babua” notably was coined when BSP chief Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav, now popular political rivals, formed an alliance in the 2019 parliamentary election.
"During the course of investigation Zuckerberg's name was dropped, while investigation is being carried out against the administrator of the (Facebook) page,” a senior district police official told PTI.
At the behest of Kumar, Chief Judicial Magistrate Dharamveer Singh asked the police to lodge the case.
Kumar had sent an application to the Superintendent of Police on May 25. When no action was taken even after submission of his application, he went ahead and filed an FIR and demanded that a case be registered against the admin of the Facebook page along with the CEO Zuckerberg.
