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Man held for hacking Image Channel Facebook page

Man held for hacking Image Channel Facebook page

By THT Online

Imagekhabar Facebook page of Image Channel

KATHMANDU: Police arrested a man on charge of hacking a Facebook page of Image Channel from Nepalgunj of Banke. Prem Bahadur BK, operator of the Taj Media in Nepalgunj-2, was brought to Kathmandu on Sunday. BK, a permanent resident of Deudakala-3 of Bardiya district, reportedly hacked the Imagekhabar Facebook page and merged it into another page, the Metropolitan Police Crime Division said in a statement today. The MPCD had swung into action after the media company had filed a complaint with it. Investigations had revealed that BK renamed the page as Viralkhabar and continued operating it. Meanwhile, police confiscated two laptops and a mobile set from him. Further investigation is underway under the Electronic Transactions Act, 2006.