Mark Zuckerberg summoned by Bhopal district court

Bhopal, April 27: A Bhopal court has summoned Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in response to a civil suit filed by a city-based startup alleging “mental harassment”.

Additional sessions judge Parth Shankar Mishra has issued an order which says that Mr Zuckerberg has to appear in court on June 20.



Swapnil Rai, who runs, thetradebook.org, a business networking platform, alleged that Facebook stopped his paid advertisement campaign to promote his page after running it for three days and then issued a legal notice on the title of his portal.

Mr Rai filed a civil suit against Facebook saying the popular social networking site wanted him to remove the word "book" from his portal and sent him legal notices which caused immense "mental stress".