Chandigarh, Sep 9 (UNI) As part of the crackdown ordered by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh against miscreants inciting the public with malicious hate content on organ harvesting, the Punjab Police has got 38 Facebook, 49 Twitter and 21 YouTube accounts/links blocked by competent authorities for spread of vicious propaganda on COVID.
A total of 151 accounts/links of Facebook, 100 of Twitter, four of Instagram and 37 of YouTube have been reported to the concerned Facebook, Twitter and Google authorities, with 121 FIRs registered so far at various police stations across Punjab.
Stating this on Wednesday, DGP Dinkar Gupta said the Punjab police’s Bureau of Investigations (BoI) had taken up the matter of blocking the spiteful accounts/links of anti-national and anti-social elements with the Cyber Law Division, Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, following which 108 accounts/links have been blocked so far. Further action on the remaining accounts is awaited, he said.