"Angry Shiv Sainiks took to the streets in Pune around 9 pm after derogatory images of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray appeared on social media on Saturday. Sena leaders gheraoed Home Minister RR Patil who promised to speak to Facebook and Google to remove objectionable content in 24 hours..."
"Before Narendra Modi is sworn in as prime minister on 26 May, a young shipbuilding professional may well be behind bars, for slamming the now former Gujarat chief minister on Facebook during the Lok Sabha election campaign. A trial court on Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail application moved by Devu Chodankar, a shipbuilding diploma holder working in Mumbai, clearing the way for his possible arrest, even as the police want to probe if Chodankar had broader plans to “promote communal and social disharmony” in Goa..."
"During the run up to the Lok Sabha polls, Mr. Chodankar, in a post (subsequently deleted) on Goa+, a popular forum on Facebook had claimed that if elected to power, Mr. Modi would unleash a 'holocaust.' The Cyber Cell of the Crime Branch of Goa police are on the lookout for Devu Chodankar, a shipbuilding professional working in Mumbai, in a case against him for his controversial post in social media about Narendra Modi, the NDA Prime Minister-elect, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls..."
"I have no knowledge in the field whatsoever. However, to be honest, the 2014 elections captured my attention and I liked the official Facebook page of AAP to be updated. Today, I saw a photo posted by the page and opened the comments. I saw this comment at the top... It had about 100 likes at that time. I looked away for a few moments, and when I saw it again, the number had risen to around 400. This might be normal for high-volume pages like this, but it got my attention.
"The footsteps of fascism can be heard – this time in the hallowed hallways of the national capital’s courts. A woman who filed an FIR against a man physically threatening her for her anti-Modi Facebook posts, found to her dismay that the Metropolitan Magistrate in the Tis Hazari courts let off the man accused of threatening her safety, while ordering an FIR against her instead! The media’s coverage of this outrageous incident has been, till now, biased and factually misleading. Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, a journalist and a Ph.D.
'No evidence was found during a preliminary enquiry against the man booked for sedition and insulting national honour for a Facebook 'like', state government informed the Kerala High Court on Tuesday. The submission was made during the hearing of a petition filed by KH Muhammed Ali, a native of Eloor and an employee of Dubai Municipality, challenging the FIR registered by Eloor police based on city police commissioner's direction. During his stay in Dubai, Muhammed Ali had befriended few co-workers, including Pakistani nationals.
"A seemingly harmless post on Facebook questioning Mumbai shutdown after the death of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has landed two girls in trouble. The Palghar police in neighbouring Thane on Sunday arrested Shaheen Dhada and her friend Renu charging them with hurting religious sentiments, apparently under pressure from Shiv Sainiks. The police action has evoked widespread outrage. The girls were also charged under the IT Act.
