Man held for obscene posts on Orkut

Tech firm executive from Mohali messed up a woman’s profile

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh police on Thursday arrested a youth on the charge of posting obscene material, including pictures, on a woman’s  profile on Orkut without her knowledge, a police spokesperson said here.

Jatinder Singh Marok, a process executive in tech firm in Mohali, was arrested under section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, after the girl lodged a case against him.

The girl, who is also a resident of Mohali, was getting telephone calls from men after her profile with pornographic photos of some other girl, but carrying her name and phone number, appeared in the profile section of Orkut, police said. The girl then approached the cyber crime cell of the Chandigarh police. Marok was arrested after the police painstakingly collected  digital evidence, said the police. The accused is being being interrogated.

Orkut, a social networking site run by Google, has been in news in India for all the wrong reasons.
 
On October 10, 2006, the Bombay high court served a notice on Google for allowing a hate campaign against India with reference to a community on Orkut called We Hate India, which carried a picture of an Indian flag being burned.

In the same year, the high court  asked the Maharashtra government to file its reply in connection with a petition demanding a ban on Orkut for hosting an anti-Shivaji web community.