The city cyber-crime cell arrested a Resident Medical Officer (RMO) of the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre in Ahmedabad on Thursday for allegedly posting defamatory content and fake news on social media against the hospital’s doctors, including its director, Dr RK Patel.
According to police, Dr Kaushik Barot (46), RMO and doctor at the clinic cardiologist department of UN Mehta Hospital, was arrested by a team of Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Cell from his residence in Bapunagar.
According to police, Barot had allegedly created several fake pages on social media websites to post defamatory content against his hospital.
Following a complaint from the hospital management, a FIR was filed against Dr. Barot at the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Police Station on Wednesday night under IPC sections 120b for criminal conspiracy, 500 for defamation, and section 66c of the Information Technology Amendment Act.
“A complaint was given by the doctors at UN Mehta Hospital that an unidentified person has been making pages on various social media websites for the past six-eight months and putting up fake posts against the hospital,” said Amit Vasava, deputy commissioner of police, Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Cell.
“After technical analysis and investigation, we have arrested UN Mejta Hospital’s RMO Dr Kaushik Barot,” he added.