India has summoned top officials of Wikipedia after a national cricketer’ Arshdeep Singh’s page on the online encyclopedia was edited following a match with Pakistan to claim that he was linked to a Sikh separatist movement.
This tweak appeared last Sunday when Pakistan defeated India in an exciting and thrilling T20 match.
According to media reports, Indian cricketer Arshdeep Singh has been facing the wrath of Indian social media users since Sunday when he dropped a catch in the closing stages of a tense India-Pakistan match.
Singh’s Wikipedia page last Sunday said the Sikh cricketer, born in northern Indian state of Punjab, had been selected to play for Khalistan, referring to Sikh freedom movement. The Wikipedia page has since been rectified.
The federal information technology (IT) ministry has summoned Wikipedia executives over the incident to seek explanation.
A government panel will question Wikipedia on how the online encyclopedia is edited and how modifications such as those made to Singh’s page could be allowed.
“The edits have been traced back to servers in the neighbouring countries and can cause serious damage to the internal peace and national safety of India,” the newspaper quoted a government official as saying.
