'Default' admin in jail for 5 months over objectionable message in WhatsApp group

Bhopal | Monday | 23rd July, 2018

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A 21-year-old group administrator of instant messaging service WhatsApp is behind bars here for the last five months, following an alleged objectionable message posted in the group by a member. However, Gurjar left the WhatsApp group soon after. “Acting on the complaint, the police summoned the boy and the then group administrator, Raja Gurjar,” Dahima said. A 17-year-old boy from Talen town of Rajgarh district in Madhya Pradesh allegedly posted an anti-national message on the WhatsApp group on February 14, Talen police station in-charge Narmada Prasad Dahima said on Monday. “Finally, Junaid Mev became the group administrator as per the policy of the social media platform,” a family member of Mev claimed..