India, Feb. 13 -- Meta on Thursday restored the Facebook account of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee hours after his legal counsel sent a legal notice to the tech giant alleging "alteration of personal information", people aware of the development said.

Late on Wednesday night, the Diamond Harbour MP sent a legal notice to Meta, the parent company of social media platform Facebook, alleging that there was "unauthorised access to the FB account and alteration of personal information".

"My client's 'Bio' on his official Facebook page has stopped reflecting the term All India Trinamool Congress," the notice sent by Sanjay Basu, advocate, stated.

That the term has gone missing from his social media page was brought to Banerjee's not...