Facebook may help commoners find their long-lost friends and forge new relationships, but over the last year, it has also hugely helped investigative agencies get vital leads and make major arrests in sensational cases. Last Friday, the Mumbai police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad filed a chargesheet against the accused in the 13/7 blasts that rocked the city last year. Investigations by the police revealed that the alleged bomb planters, Naquee Ahmad and Nadeem Akhtar were both Facebook friends with mastermind Yasin Bhatkal, who is currently absconding. Over 100 screenshots taken from their social networking websites’ accounts have now been annexed to the chargesheet.

Revellers who were rounded up from the ‘rave’ party busted on May 20