Pune, Oct 05: Three more software engineers were
arrested by the cyber crime cell of Pune police at Bangalore
in connection with posting an obscene profile of Maratha
warrior King Shivaji on a social networking website.
This follows the recent arrest of one Laxman Kailas, a
Bangalore-based software engineer who allegedly uploaded the
defamatory matter on the community page of Orkut in November
last year, in which the revered icon was shown clad in female
innerwear.
The fresh arrests were effected on October 3. The three -
Manjunath Betegowda, Harish Shetty and Kiran Reddy - were
produced before a court here yesterday and remanded to police
custody till October 14.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, October 05, 2007, 00:00