India, May 18 -- Two fresh first information reports (FIRs) have been registered against unknown social media accounts in connection with the Noida workers' protests last month, Noida police officials said on Sunday.

Both FIRs were registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita section 351(1)(b) (criminal intimidation), and 66C (identity theft) and 66D (cheating by personation) of the Information Technology (IT) Act. They were filed by a police sub-inspector (SI), Media Cell of Gautam Budh Nagar, who monitors social media platforms.

According to the first FIR, seen by HT, the platforms were being used to "spread threatening, false, and offensive posts, articles, and messages related to police action. These posts depict police action as illega...