Mayawati's fake profile, no more: Google

Aug 29: Google, the world’s 3 rd ranked website in the world has officially announced today to remove the fake profile of Mayawati as UP Chief Ministry official has warned to Google to take legal action against the culprit as well as Google for having an objectionable material against the UP Chief Minister Mayawati. The state government is seriously thinking of taking action against the cyber crime, official sources confirmed today.

The state government has reported to Google about the fake profile of Mayawati on Orkut, the social networking site of Google on Monday. Orkut is the second most popular website in India and have the 8 th ranked in the world. It is now a days in the limelight usually because of having many fake profiles on this site. But this time an objectionable material against Mayawati can be very expensive for the Google as Mayawati is known as a very powerful politician in North India and is famous about taking strict actions against crimes.

“We have enough expertise to deal with such cases and the government would ensure punishment against the offenders," The Secretary Home Javeed Ahmad said in Lucknow on Monday. “The state government has adequate legal provisions against cyber crimes and the police would take action”, added Ahmad.

According to Information, someone mischief had posted the objectionable material and created a fake profile of UP Chief Minister. The intention is not yet clear.

Now, Google has officially announced today to remove the fake and objectionable profile of Mayawati. "The fake profiles of Chief Minister Mayawati violated Orkut's policy on impersonation and have been removed," a Google spokesperson said in a statement.

"We take violations of Orkut's policy very seriously as such activities diminish the experience of our users. When we learn about illegal or inappropriate content we act quickly to remove it," the spokesperson said.

On the other hand, cyber law experts are advising the government to take action against the misusing of such networking platforms that goes before millions of Internet users.

"These excesses on social networking sites are not covered under Information Technology Act. Even the proposed amendments to Indian Cyber Law seeks to make a feeble attempt in making the identity thefts as a bailable offence," Pawan Duggal, a cyber law expert and Supreme Court lawyer, said.

"What required is a stringent deterrent provision of civil and criminal liability for such crimes," added Duggal. He also suggested to checkout the last computer from where the mysterious content was uploaded. According to him, it is technically possible to tracking the computer system by using Internet protocol tracking mechanism.