A citizen from India’s Mangaluru named Shailesh Kumar has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia after a disrespectful Facebook post against the ruler of Saudi and Islam religion. Wife of the victim Kavitha has claimed that it was a fake account of her husband used by someone else to post derogatory messages.
Despite the complaint made by Kavitha, police has failed to inquire about the matter which forced Kavitha to move to High Court and file a petition in 2021 which was heard by Justice Krishna S Dixit on Wednesday.
Earlier on June 12, the HC had ordered: “The Commissioner of Police, Mangalore (Mangaluru), is directed to study the case papers and be present before the Court to answer as to why there has been arguably enormous delay in accomplishing the investigation of the matter when a citizen of this country is languishing in a jail of a foreign country after trial and conviction when his specific stand was that his Facebook account was hacked.”
Karnataka HC has taken a step to help the imprisoned citizen with the justice, the concerned High Court has orally warned Facebook (Meta) to cooperate with the investigation process otherwise a strict action will be taken to shut down it’s operations in India.
