A day after references to the separatist Khalistani motion have been added to Indian cricketer Arshdeep Singh’s Wikipedia web page, Union minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar stated on Monday that such on-line exercise violated the federal government’s expectations of secure and trusted data.

Singh, a 23-year outdated left-arm quick bowler, has been uncovered to a number of hateful messages on social media for dropping a catch in the course of the India-Pakistan cricket match in Dubai on Sunday. Pakistan defeated India by 5 wickets.

“No middleman working in India can allow any such misinformation and deliberate efforts to incitement and #userharm,” the minister of state for electronics and data know-how wrote in a tweet on Monday.

He additionally posted screenshots of edits made to the web encyclopedia web page so as to add the misinformation that Singh was born in “Khalistan” and represented the separatist group’s cricket crew.

Earlier on Monday, The Financial Instances reported that the electronics and data know-how ministry has summoned executives of Wikipedia to hunt a proof on how the references to Khalistan have been added to Singh’s web page. Nevertheless, the ministry has not issued an official assertion about any assembly with Wikipedia administration.

A number of cricketers, together with former off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, had prolonged their help to Singh.

“Cease criticising younger Arshdeep Singh,” Harbhajan Singh wrote on Twitter. “Nobody drops the catch purposely…we’re happy with our boys.”