Facebook: Rahul impostor held; teen used profile to flirt

Narayangarh (Har), Nov 8: With Rahul Gandhi definitely the flavour of the political scene in the country at present, people want to cash in on the popularity as much as they can. The matter was validated when the Madhya Pradesh police arrested a teenage boy for creating a fake Facebook profile of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi.

The matter came to light in Aug. The culprit, 19-year-old Ankit Saini was held near Narayangarh in Haryana. This was based on a complaint filed by the spokesperson of Bhopal District Rural Congress Pankaj Chaturvedi who intimated the matter with the cyber crime cell of the MP Police on Aug 8.

The arrest was made by Cyber crime cell in-charge Rajendra Kumar Mishra. Narayangarh local police have refused to divulge further details of the arrest and other information on the case.

Police have revealed that the teen used the fake profile to flirt with girls on popular social networking site, Facebook. The fake profile was first brought to light by a woman leader of the Congress who connected with the fake Rahul Gandhi on Facebook.

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