Ludhiana: About 70% of the social media-related complaints pending with the cyber cell of Ludhiana Police are related to youngsters, who are either victims or the accused. Among these, more complaints are related to Facebook and include making fake profiles, sending abusive or threatening messages, cyber bullying and uploading morphed pictures.
The cyber cell has about 2,400 pending complaints, into which investigations are on. Among these, 627 are related to social media and 70% cases involve youngsters between 14 and 22 years of age.
Assistant commissioner of police (cybercrime) Vaibhav Sehgal said, “Among the 627 pending complaints, the maximum (485) are related to Facebook. These include fake profiles, sending abusive or threatening messages and uploading morphed pictures. There are 127 complaints related to Instagram and 18 to Gmail. The Instagram complaints are also of fake profiles and vulgar messages. The complaints related to Gmail are of fake IDs, which are used to mak