Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on Tumblr A complaint has been registered in a court in Uttar Pradesh against Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and three others for using national symbols and letterheads of President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on its site without due authorization. Chief Judicial Magistrate Anand Prakash Singh on Wednesday set November 12 as the next date of hearing when the petitioner lawyer Omkar’s announcement would be recorded. Others named in the complaint are Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, Facebook India Head Ajit Mohan. The petitioner has additionally asserted that the social media giant runs an application which enables certain national symbols to be used without authorization. He has submitted screen shots also as proof. The petitioner has demanded that the named people be rebuffed for this offense as they were not just getting cheap populairty with the using of such images but on the other hand were earning a lot of cash. “This has hurt my sentiments and has hurt national pride,” the petitioner has said.
