Delhi Police Crime Branch registers FIR over fake notices seeking blocking of IFF, SFLC X accounts; probes ‘imposter’

NEW DELHI The Delhi Police’s Crime Branch has registered a case over fraudulent notices purportedly issued in the name of the force, seeking the removal of social media posts and the blocking of accounts belonging to the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) and the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC), an official close to the development told The Hindu.

Also read | ‘Imposter’ sent fake police notices seeking to block IFF, SFLC accounts: X tells Delhi High Court https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/imposter-sent-fake-police-notices-seeking-to-block-iff-sflc-accounts-x-tells-delhi-high-court/article71674373.ece The FIR has been registered on charges of impersonating a public servant and forgery under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Section 66 of Information Technology (IT) Act.

The development comes days after social media platform X told the Delhi High Court that an internal investigation had established that the notices were not genuine police communications and had been sent by an “imposter”.