Firstly, you can make a complaint to Facebook itself about your photograph being used by someone else. If Facebook authorities are satisfied about the genuineness of your complaint, they may remove such photograph or the profile itself.
Secondly, in some situations, personation is an offence if certain conditions are satisfied.
For example, Section 66-C of the Information Technology Act prescribes punishment for identity theft by a person who fraudulently or dishonestly makes use of the electronic signature, password or any other unique identification feature of any other person.
Section 66-D of the said Act lays down for punishment for cheating by personation by using computer resource.
Even under the Indian Penal Code, cheating by personation is defined under Section 416 of IPC, which lays down that a person is said to “cheat by personation” if he cheats by pretending to be some other person, or by knowingly substituting one person for another, or representing that he or any other person is a person other than he or such other person really is. This offence is punishable under Section 419 of IPC.
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