Facebook told to remove Mamata's pics

BANGALORE, INDIA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is restless. Social media networks, fraught with her cartoons and photos, have become her new enemy.

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Even before the public ire faded over the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra, now West Bengal Crime investigation department has written to the Facebook asking it to remove four pictures lampooning Banerjee.

The CID has also asked for the IP address of the computer from which the pictures were uploaded. The pictures do not include the cartoon by Mahapatra.

The CID wrote to the Facebook following a police complaint filed by a resident of Kolkata who found the pictures offensive. Media reports quoted a CID officer as saying that writing to Facebook was routine in event of complaints about the content on the social networking site.