Ghaziabad: A video claiming to show Islamic and Hindu non secular practices used to be shared at the authentic Facebook page of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation — meant to highlight simplest the civic frame’s activities — on March 6. The video used to be taken off the page nearly a day later, after receiving court cases from social media users about its controversial nature.
On Thursday, the municipal commissioner ordered an inquiry to spot the person who uploaded the objectionable video at the coroporation’s authentic page. However, no police complaint has been filed yet. According to resources, the video used to be shared at the civic frame’s Facebook page from the timeline of Anand Chaurasia, who claims to be a former BJP member from Allahabad, as mentioned in his profile.
“Know from the video as to where from Muslims came, how did they change into Muslims and how they'll be finished. All that is needed is to pour holy Ganga water at the lingam of Lord Shiva. Everything will be finished (sic),” Chaurasia had commented together with the video.
The video, which is four.24 minutes long, is going on to eulogise how Islamic non secular practices had been derived from Hinduism. It also claims a number of Islamic non secular symbols had their genesis in Hindu mythology.
The video used to be shared by way of GMC on its Facebook page at 12.04 pm on March 6. It began attracting a slew of comments and reactions from social media users for over 24 hours that it remained at the timeline.
The video used to be taken down on Wednesday after senior officials of the civic frame had been apprised about the issue by way of Facebook users connected to the account of GMC At five.47 pm on March 7, the civic frame posted an apology on its timeline which stated: “We regret for the final shared publish”.
According to the company, its authentic Facebook account is treated by way of the pc section. The position of a hacker has not been dominated out by way of officials accomplishing the inquiry. “There are simplest two to a few staff in the laptop section who care for the Facebook page. It is an authentic page meant simplest to highlight the activities of the municipal company and not for sharing trivial posts. An inquiry has been set as much as decide the id of the person responsible for sharing the controversial video on Facebook. Plenty of officials in the company are being questioned. Prima facie, however, apparently that the publish used to be not shared from a pc inside the workplace of the municipal company. Officials accountable for IT in the company are inspecting the issue,” municipal commissioner Chandra Prakash Singh told TOI.
Meanwhile, police stated that if a case is registered, the accused may get punishment for violating provisions of Information Technology Act, 2008.
“It is the duty of the admin of the Facebook page to keep watch over content at the timeline. The admin of the page will be held primarily responsible for any goof-ups. We will sign in an FIR and habits detailed investigations into the case if we obtain a complaint. The municipal commissioner should take necessary motion by way of changing the admin of the Facebook page and sending a complaint to police,” SSP Hari Narayan Singh stated.
On Thursday, the municipal commissioner ordered an inquiry to spot the person who uploaded the objectionable video at the coroporation’s authentic page. However, no police complaint has been filed yet. According to resources, the video used to be shared at the civic frame’s Facebook page from the timeline of Anand Chaurasia, who claims to be a former BJP member from Allahabad, as mentioned in his profile.
“Know from the video as to where from Muslims came, how did they change into Muslims and how they'll be finished. All that is needed is to pour holy Ganga water at the lingam of Lord Shiva. Everything will be finished (sic),” Chaurasia had commented together with the video.
The video, which is four.24 minutes long, is going on to eulogise how Islamic non secular practices had been derived from Hinduism. It also claims a number of Islamic non secular symbols had their genesis in Hindu mythology.
The video used to be shared by way of GMC on its Facebook page at 12.04 pm on March 6. It began attracting a slew of comments and reactions from social media users for over 24 hours that it remained at the timeline.
The video used to be taken down on Wednesday after senior officials of the civic frame had been apprised about the issue by way of Facebook users connected to the account of GMC At five.47 pm on March 7, the civic frame posted an apology on its timeline which stated: “We regret for the final shared publish”.
According to the company, its authentic Facebook account is treated by way of the pc section. The position of a hacker has not been dominated out by way of officials accomplishing the inquiry. “There are simplest two to a few staff in the laptop section who care for the Facebook page. It is an authentic page meant simplest to highlight the activities of the municipal company and not for sharing trivial posts. An inquiry has been set as much as decide the id of the person responsible for sharing the controversial video on Facebook. Plenty of officials in the company are being questioned. Prima facie, however, apparently that the publish used to be not shared from a pc inside the workplace of the municipal company. Officials accountable for IT in the company are inspecting the issue,” municipal commissioner Chandra Prakash Singh told TOI.
Meanwhile, police stated that if a case is registered, the accused may get punishment for violating provisions of Information Technology Act, 2008.
“It is the duty of the admin of the Facebook page to keep watch over content at the timeline. The admin of the page will be held primarily responsible for any goof-ups. We will sign in an FIR and habits detailed investigations into the case if we obtain a complaint. The municipal commissioner should take necessary motion by way of changing the admin of the Facebook page and sending a complaint to police,” SSP Hari Narayan Singh stated.
Video on religion shared by GMC’s Facebook page
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