Telugu TV channel booked for airing video of the snake gang threatening their victim

Hyderabad: The Cyberabad poilce’s cyber crime unit has booked a case against a Telugu TV channel for airing a video of the snake gang threatening their victim. The video is suspected to have been recorded by the gang using their mobile phone while assaulting the victim.

The police has also booked a case against a journalist who shared the video using his Whatsapp account. However, the cops are yet to take action against two big TV channels who copied the video and aired it during their news bulletins.

Police officials said they had booked the case following a complaint from the victim’s relatives who approached the police after coming to know that the video was aired by TV channels. The police soon booked a case against the channel which aired the video first.

“We have booked a case under Section 66A and 67A of the IT Act. We are investigating the involvement of two other channels, who is alleged to have aired the same strip,” said additional DCP Janaki Sharmila. Police officials said that sharing the video on any platform amounts to sending offensive messages and publishing obscene material in electronic form.

A 9-member gang, known as the snake gang for using snakes to threaten their victims, allegedly raped a girl in a farmhouse at Pahadi Shareef. The gang was arrested and it was found that the gang had also assaulted the victim and her fiance, who had come to the farmhouse.