The arrested person has been identified as Ruturaj Nalawade (30).
Cyber Cell of Pune police arrested a 30-year-old man for making a fake profile of Cabinet Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Girish Bapat on social media and posting objectionable posts.
A case was registered in Pune's Bund Garden police station in this regard. The arrest was made on Thursday night based on the complaint. The arrested person has been identified as Ruturaj Nalawade (30). According to police, Nalawade had created a Facebook page by the name of Namdar Girish Bapat (MLA Girish Bapat) using photographs of the minister.
Speaking to DNA, Sunil Mane, social media coordinator of Bapat who lodged the complaint said, "I came across the page. His original page is by the name of Girish Bapat, but here the person used Namdar Girish Bapat in devnagari script."
"The person also used some of Bapat's photographs to project his page as a genuine one. He sent friend requests to other people who are known to the minister. The person even posted some objectionable posts on the page using the minister's name," Mane added.
When contacted, senior Inspector Radhika Phadke of cyber cell told DNA, "After we received the complaint, we sought details of the account from Facebook. We tracked Nalawade after getting the information."
After finding that the fake page has been created, Mane approached the cyber cell of Pune police and submitted a complaint application. Based on the application, a case was registered in Bund garden police station on Tuesday and on the same day, police managed to arrest the culprit.
"He hails from Junnar and he has studied upto 12th standard. While inquiring with him, we found that he has created nearly nine to ten such fake accounts. We will be interrogating him to find the motive behind creating such fake accounts," Phadke added.
Police have slapped charges of defamation under section 500 of Indian Penal Code and section 66 of the IT Act against Nalawade.
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