UP govt website hacked, files FIR

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government has filed an FIR after the website of its basic education department was hacked and advertisements of viagra and birth control pills posted on it.

State Basic Education Minister Dharam Singh Saini told the Assembly that the advertisements were detected on the night of July 22 and were promptly removed.

The government has filed an FIR in this connection and the ID has been traced to Ukraine, the United States and the UK and further inquiries were on.

"Stern action would be taken against all those found responsible for the same," the minister said while replying on an adjournment notice moved by Pramod Tewari of Congress in Zero Hour.

In his notice, Tewari had said that the objectionable advertisement were found on the government website meant for advertising the mid-day meal scheme for school children and called for stern action against officials who failed to prevent the incident.