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NEW DELHI: Senior television journalist Ravish Kumar ’s blog naisadak.org was hacked and defiled on Tuesday morning. A threat to his life was posted in Devnagri script on his home page. On Wednesday morning, Kumar filed an FIR with the Indirapuram police station in Ghaziabad.A case has been registered against unknown persons under section 66 A of the IT Act which covers sending “grossly offensive” or “annoying” content by a computer resource, and section 506 of the IPC, which covers criminal intimidation. A senior police officer said on Wednesday that the case is being forwarded to the crime branch, Ghaziabad.The hackers left a signature by the name of “Aslan Neferler”, along with a death threat in broken Hindi. Their Facebook page details other hacking exploits in the Turkish language. Kumar’s blog was listed among 11 other Indian websites which they also claimed to have been hacked. Some of these, found to be functional by TOI, were: hinduculture.org and nagababaassociation.com and, rather strangely, lucknowtaxiservices.in. The defaced page has now been taken off, and the website is currently unavailable.Speaking to TOI, the NDTV journalist said that that all the content hosted on it is now lost, and he doesn’t know what prompted the hack. “Maybe they didn’t like what I write. Some friends and regular readers of the blog have been writing back to me offering to send me some of the older posts that they had saved,” says Kumar. Kumar’s blog, where he posted his experiences from the field while reporting and other sundry observations, was earlier hosted on the blogging platform Blogspot. In May last year, he migrated to his own website.In a public post on his Facebook account, he wrote in Hindi: “If you have a problem with my writing, you can write alongside as well. How much will you delete, Mr Hacker? Taking a website off doesn’t take away the ideas. Several people have assured me that the hacker can be reached. Let’s see what happens.”