Kolkata Police Keeping a Hawk Eye in Social Media!!

After professor Ambikesh Mahapatra of Jadavpur University and Rohit Pashi from Jalpaiguri stated their criticisms against the state ministry in social media, precisely saying, in Facebook, it’s now turn for all the residents of the state to check their social media activities. The West Bengal government has started monitoring social media as an increasing number of people voice their opinion, express their grievances or criticize those in authority via Facebook and Twitter, a home department source said Tuesday.

CID and other police agencies and the five police commissionerates are having a hawk eye to the contents posted, shared and liked in Facebook by the users. A senior police official said that users posting inflammatory and abusive contents come under cyber crime. He also added "There is a difference between abuse and criticism. People are free to criticize a political personality. But posting abuses on social networking sites and making vulgar pictures of the state-heads come under cyber crime offences. So we have chalked out parameters to determine whether it is an abuse."

Explaining the differences, the senior police officials said that if a person criticizes the government or the rulers, it will not counted as an abuse; but posting something morphed and unrefined will seriously get counted. CID Surajit Purakayastha said that the police and the crime department are handling the issue of cyber crime in a serious manner. He also requested all the organizations to manage that properly too.