Man creates Amreli SP’s fake FB profile, arrested

Rajkot: The craving to garner ‘likes’ and gain a sense importance, though a false one, on social media landed a 28-year-old farmer from Amreli’s Shivad village in trouble. Vijay Sisnada was on Friday arrested for creating a fake Facebook account of Amreli superintendent of police Nirlipt Rai.
J P Bhandari, deputy superintendent of police (DySP), Amreli, confirmed that the arrested accused created the fake account of IPS officer Rai in order to garner ‘likes’ on the social media. “Sisnada has no criminal past,” a police official said.
“This is the screenshot of the fake Facebook profile made in the name of SP Amreli. We have initiated legal action. The posts and comments may be ignored,” Amreli SP Nirlipt Rai tweeted on Friday after the accused was arrested.
“Sisnada accessed photos of Nirlipt Rai from his personal FB account and used the photos as profile pictures of the fake social media account. He used to post comments on other social media accounts and those users would believe that it was the Amreli SP commenting on their posts. The domain name of the fake FB account was SPNirlipt Rai and profile name was SP Amreli. We came to know that accused Sisnada even wrote derogatory remarks on someone’s post and that’s how the fake FB account came into notice of the police officer,” police sources said.
The accused has been booked under various sections of IPC including 469 (forgery), 471 (Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine-document or electronic record), 419 (cheating by personation), 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory) and other sections of IT Act.