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Kutumbari Limited, a Bangladeshi chain restaurant, has served a legal notice on Facebook for allowing 63 pages in the name of same company, seeking $800,000 in compensation.
Kutumbari Ltd demanded the compensatory amount for allegedly ‘harming its business’ and cause ‘loss of millions of customers’ by Facebook— the world's largest social media company, said a press release.
Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Kazi Mohammad Joynal Abedin served the legal notice on the authorities of Facebook Inc, including its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and members of the Board of Directors.
On behalf of Gazi Khaled Ibn Mohammad, Managing Director of the Kutumbari Ltd, the legal notice was served on the social media giant on December 7 in 2020.
In the legal notice, Uniform Resource Locator links of 63 fake pages and two groups named after Kutumbari were also sent to Facebook, Inc.
Kutumbari Ltd opened a Facebook page on March 28 in 2014 but the page was hacked on March 22 in 2020. It was hacked several times. After repeated reminder and request, the Facebook page of Kutumbari was restored on April 11 last year.
In the meantime, many customers of the Kutumbari tried to connect through Facebook but were unable to reach the verified Kutumbari page as the page was beyond the control of the main admin and the page was controlled by some unauthorised anonymous admin panel in the name of “Monkey Duo Duo”, the legal notice said.
Therefore, the customers of Kutumbari were confused and the real owner of Kutumbari faced repeated interruption in conducting his business through Facebook. As a whole, the company suffered huge financial loss during Covid-19 pandemic, the legal notice claimed.
