The Noida police on Wednesday booked a man under Section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act 2000 for posting objectionable content on the Facebook wall of a news anchor of a national Hindi news channel.

According to police, a person with a profile name Sandeep Upadhyay has posted a rape threat on the Facebook wall of the woman journalist working in a popular Hindi news channel in Noida.

The station house officer of Sector 49 police station, Bijendra Singh Bhadana, said, “A news anchor of a Hindi news channel approached us with a complaint of being harassed on a social networking site by posting objectionable content.”