Lucknow: A Uttar Pradesh government officer
was booked on Saturday for posting “derogatory” remarks against Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah on a social media networking
site, police said.
The officer identified as Rajesh Kumar Yadav,
an Assistant Project Officer (APO) of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) in the Balrampur district of Uttar
Pradesh.
He had posted “offensive” statements against
Modi and Shah on the social networking site Facebook, they said.
An FIR has been filed on Saturday against
Yadav at the Balrampur city police station and he has been booked under under
section 66 (A) (B) of the Information Technology Act and relevant sections of
the Indian Penal Code.
“The case is being investigated,” a
senior police officer of Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) said.