A city lawyer and social activist Sunday lodged afirst information report (FIR) against popular social networking site Facebook,after his profile was blocked.
The report was filed at the 'cyber crime cell' of theLucknow police by Prince Lenin, a resident of Hussainganj here.
In his complaint, Lenin alleged that although he had longbeen a user of Facebook, his profile was recently blocked by the site without somuch as informing him or spelling out the reasons for such "one sided andunfair action."
Alleging that blocking his profile on the site was againstthe natural law of justice, the complainant claimed that even though he hadbrought the matter to the notice of Facebook, he was told that severalcomplaints were pending against him from other users of the site.
The complainant said that his profile was blocked betweenNov 11 and 13.
Lenin also alleged that the complaints against him were madeby "anti-social elements" out to defame him, as they were rattled byhis work in the social sector, since he had been filing public interestlitigations (PILs) against the "high and mighty".
"I filed a PIL in the multi-crore National Rural HealthMission scam. I had been using Facebook to speak my mind in the matter andinform people that I smell conspiracy," Lenin told IANS.
The in-charge of the cyber cell of the police, Dinesh Yadav,confirmed that an FIR had been lodged under Sections 66 and 84 of the CyberCrime Information Act.
Anyone found guilty under these provisions could face up tothree years in jail.