Cops lens on defamatory content against CM

HYDERABAD: Kukatpally police have registered a case against unidentified persons running social media accounts circulating defamatory content against Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.

Telangana State Technology Services chairman P. Jaganmohan Rao lodged a
complaint stating that defamatory content is being circulated from 24 accounts on social media platforms. The accounts are run by the persons working for the BJP and Congress IT Cells, he claimed.

He submitted a 24-page complaint to the police, following which the police
registered a case and started an investigation.

Kukatpally inspector T. Narsing Rao said a case has been registered under
relevant sections of the IPC and the IT Act. "We are in the process of tracking the users operating these accounts. We have also written to the social media platforms seeking details of the users," he said.