Thane woman held for ‘abusive’ Facebook comments on Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis’ wife Amruta

The woman allegedly used a fake Facebook account with the name Ganesh Kapoor after her account was suspended.

Written by Mohamed Thaver
Mumbai | Updated: September 18, 2022 09:28 AM IST

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Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, with wife Amruta, in Nagpur on Tuesday. (PTI)

A woman was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly making derogatory comments on a Facebook post by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s wife, Amruta Fadnavis, using a fake account with the name Ganesh Kapoor.

The arrest of the woman from Thane came after a complaint was lodged by Pallavi Sapre, who said she read the “abusive” comments on September 7. The woman was then booked under charges of defamation and impersonation.

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Mumbai’s nodal cyber police said they had found that Facebook had suspended the woman’s account for posting abusive content in 2021. It was then that she created a fake account in the name of Ganesh Kapoor, a police officer said.

She was produced before a magistrate court, which remanded her in police custody till Thursday.

The officer said police were checking if she had been involved in more such instances using the same fake account.

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