Updated on Friday, October 05, 2007, 00:00 IST

Pune, Oct 05: Three more software engineers were arrested by the cyber crime cell of Pune police at Bangalore in connection with posting an obscene profile of Maratha warrior King Shivaji on a social networking website.

This follows the recent arrest of one Laxman Kailas, a Bangalore-based software engineer who allegedly uploaded the defamatory matter on the community page of Orkut in November last year, in which the revered icon was shown clad in female innerwear.

The fresh arrests were effected on October 3. The three - Manjunath Betegowda, Harish Shetty and Kiran Reddy - were produced before a court here yesterday and remanded to police custody till October 14.

Bureau Report