Bhojpuri actress Neha Shree moves Delhi High Court seeking access to hacked Facebook page

An actress working in Bhojpuri film industry has moved the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the Delhi government and Facebook to restore access to her page and account on the social media platform which were hacked and are being used to post explicit and illegal content (Neha Shree v GNCTD and Anr)..The petition has been filed by actress Neha Shree through advocates Kartickay Mathur and KK Shukla. According to the petition, Shree has worked in Bhojpuri and Rajasthani movies as well as several TV serials and claims to have over 40 lakh followers on her Facebook page. On the intervening night of October 19 and 20, she received an email from Facebook informing that she has been removed as an admin of the Neha Shree Facebook page.She has said that immediately after receiving the mail, a complaint was raised with Facebook informing them about the hacking of her account. However, she only received “auto-generated” and “pre-typed” messages while nothing was done to restore her access.“That the hacker of the Facebook account and page of the petitioner are publishing nudity, explicit and illegal material though has no access to the control of the Facebook Page has been reporting against such illegal material on the Facebook Page but at no point of time any action was taken by Respondent no. 3,” the plea said..The petition added that as she found no resolution to her problems, she visited the company’s offices at Gurugram and Okhla. However, at both the locations, no office was found but a security personnel asked her to drop her complaint in a box. She then received an email mentioning that the response time would be 30 days, but even after that, her problems have not been resolved.The petition mentioned that though she filed a complaint with the Cyber Cell of the Delhi Police, no action was taken by them either.“Posting of illegal and immoral content on the Facebook page of the petitioner has caused grave prejudice to the petitioner and injury caused to the reputation of the petitioner cannot be compensated in terms of money… She has been receiving mails from friends, relatives, fans and followers regarding the immoral content being posted on her Facebook account. Though the petitioner has tried to reason upon them to clarify that account has been attacked by the hacker but it is difficult for her to reach out to her 40 Lakhs followers among whom the reputation of the petitioner has badly suffered. That due to posting of the obscene material on the Facebook page the petitioner's image which she had created with hard work in the last 10 years has suffered adversely which would take years for the petitioner to revive,” the petition stated.The petitioner, therefore, demanded directives to the police to register a First Information Report based on her complaint and investigate the matter.