J&K HC orders FIR against Facebook, others in online fraud case

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ordered the UT’s Crime Branch to register an FIR against Facebook India Online Services and seven others and conduct investigations into a complaint of online fraud against them.

Setting aside an order passed by the Special Railway Magistrate, Jammu, Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur of High Court ordered the Cyber Cell in-charge to register an FIR, which should be investigated by the Branch concerned, “dealing with cyber offences’’.

The others against whom the court wants probe to conducted are Hyderabad-based Facebook India’s country head Ajit Mohan; Pune-based Bajaj Finance Limited and its MD, Rajiv Jain; Mohali-based Quadrant Televentures Ltd; besides directors of Quadrant Teleservices Ltd – Dinesh A Kadam and Pritesh G Lahoti; and Aman Singh Chaurhdary, an employee of Bajaj Finserv.