Complaint against FB’s Zuckerberg in UP court

Lucknow, October 18

A complaint has been registered in an Uttar Pradesh court against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and three others for using national symbols and letter heads of President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on its site without due permission.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Anand Prakash Singh on Wednesday set November 12 as the next date of hearing when the petitioner lawyer Omkar’s statement would be recorded.

Others named in the complaint are Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, chief product officer Chris Cox and Facebook India head Ajit Mohan. 

The petitioner has further alleged that the social media giant runs an application which allows certain national symbols to be used without permission.  He has submitted screen shots as evidence.  — IANS