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2017 (5) TMI 1755 - HC - Indian LawsInternet hacking - Wikipedia profile hacked - it is alleged that at the instance of the wife of the third respondent namely Mrs.Poonam Bhagat Shroff with whom the third respondent is engaged in a divorce proceedings, the petitioner has hacked the Wikipedia profile of Ms.Natalia Kapchuk and internet account and posted illegal, defamatory and derogatory material about respondent No.3 and made random calls and threatened to kill him and his children and demanded extortion - HELD THAT:- The apprehension voiced by the petitioner is well founded. The petitioner has made a clean breast of the fact that at the instance of the wife of the third respondent, he has deleted the offending URLs from the website of www.youtube.com in the course of his official business. As the allegations made in the complaint relate to the said incident, the grant of bail would only facilitate the Investigating Agency to expedite the investigation - No doubt there are allegations of criminal intimidation and extortion, but solely on account of the said allegations, the police machinery cannot be allowed to intermeddle with the liberties of the petitioner on the guise of conducting investigation into the allegations made against the petitioner. On evaluating the entire material available on record, this Court is of the view that grant of anticipatory bail in the instant case would not any way prejudice the investigation, on the other hand, it would prevent harassment, humiliation and unjustified detention of the petitioner. In the event of the arrest of the petitioner by respondent Nos.1 and 2 or by whomsoever concerned in regard to MECR No.1/2017 registered at Kherwadi Police Station, Bhandra East for the offences under sections 384, 504, 506(II), 120-B of Indian Penal Code and section 66 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, the petitioner shall be enlarged on bail on obtaining abond for ₹ 3,00,000/- with one surety for the likesum to the satisfaction of the concerned - Petition allowed.
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