Always be careful of what you write on the web!!

Orkut user Krishnakumar Vaid has learnt this the hard way!!

He stands to to be imprisoned for nearly 5 years and fined upto 1 lakh rupees if found guilty.

Cyber cell of the Pune police crime branch has arrested Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid (22), an IT professional of Gurgaon, Haryana, for allegedly uploading obscene and derogatory text about Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi on Orkut.

Congress activist Amol Bhokare of Pune, who saw the message, lodged a complaint at the Deccan Gymkhana police in December, 2007. Vaid was found guilty under section 67 of the IT Act.

According to assistant commissioner of police (cell) Netaji Shinde, Vaid, who was working with PC solutions, an IT company in Gurgaon, had added the derogatory text in a community named'I hate Soniya Gandhi on Orkut, last year. He uploaded the text while working at office.

Shinde said that the police had first asked Google to provide the IP address of the person who posted the message. They learnt that the accused was connected to the net through Bharati Airtel and Sify Internet in Chennai.

Interestingly, the person who formed the community'I hate Soniya Gandhi' is not guilty as per the law. ACP N. Shinde said hating Sonia Gandhi is the personal opinion of the person who formed the community. Having a personal opinion about someone is not an offence as per the law.

Source: Times Of India

What do you think?

Is it fair on part of Google/ Orkut to divulge the details of its users?

So every comment or scrap you make on Orkut (or for that matter anywhere else) could be seen by someone and if he finds it offending he can report to Police, and if Police asks to furnish the details of the user, Google does it to comply with Indian legal processes.

Does that sound fair?

I am not supporting what this Orkut user has done, but don’t you think Google should use some discretion while divulging details looking at the overall seriousness of situation. I am not sure if this situation was serious enough!!

Wanted to know what the readers feel about this.

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Viral Shah