The Thane Cyber Crime Cell has arrested a computer engineer employed with HCL at Ghaziabad for posting defamatory messages against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on the community site Orkut. This is the second arrest made by the police in connection with the case. Adarsh Sinha, a computer engineer with HCL had created an email account with the forged identity of Faizab Farooqi and used this account to post messages on Orkut.
The text of this message was initially compiled by Mira Road-based Suresh Shetty, a moderator of this community. Shetty was arrested on August 2, when the first message was posted.
Vikas Repale, secretary of the Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena had lodged a complaint with the Thane police. Sinha, who is also a member of around 48 other anti-Hindu Orkut communities, was arrested on August 21 at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh and was produced before the JMFC Court in Thane on August 23. He has been remanded to police custody till August 29.