Hyderabad police have made Congress strategist Sunil Kanugolu the prime accused within the instances registered over derogatory posts on Chief Minister Okay. Chandrasekhar Rao, his daughter Okay. Kavitha and others.

On the idea of confessions of three individuals taken into custody throughout a raid at an workplace in Madhapur on Tuesday night time, Cyber crime police made him the prime accused.

Further Commissioner of Police Vikram Singh Mann advised reporters that Kanugolu is absconding. On the protest by the Congress, he clarified that the police acted in accordance with the regulation.

The police officer stated the police weren’t conscious that it was the social media workplace of the Congress get together. He stated there was no workplace title or board on the premises.

The officer stated the accused had been secretly working from Thoughts Share United Basis constructing in Madhapur they usually had been traced utilizing the cyber crime instruments as a part of the investigation within the complaints about derogatory posts.

Monda Sriprathap, Shashank Kakineni, and Ishant Sharma had been taken into custody by the police they usually confessed that they had been working below Kanugolu. The accused had been issued notices below Part 41 of Legal Process Code.

The accused have been booked below Indian Penal Code (IPC) part 469 (forgery for objective of harming repute) and 505 (2) (statements creating or selling enmity, hatred or ill-will between lessons).

5 instances had been registered in opposition to the accused at Cyber Crime Police Station and 4 different police stations within the metropolis.

The officer stated 10 laptops, CPUs and cellphones had been seized. He claimed that this was carried out in a authorized method.

“Criticism in democracy is an accepted system. Political criticism is wholesome however this sort of publish personally concentrating on leaders with no regard for girls just isn’t criticism. That is outright abuse. If anyone needs to criticise, they need to be daring to disclose their identification,” he stated.

Mann stated the abusive posts weren’t concentrating on only one get together. “They weren’t revealing their identification. They had been utilizing false names or very generic names. Since social media corporations are situated overseas, it was very troublesome to hint them. Utilizing cybercrime instruments we traced them. This is step one. If there are complaints, we are going to e-book extra instances,” he stated.

Requested if the leaders of the ruling get together lodged complaints with the police, the officer stated: “Complaints had been obtained on their behalf. You don’t count on Prime Minister Narendra Modi garu to come back to the CCS workplace and provides a criticism.”

Tuesday night time’s police raid has evoked robust protest from the Congress get together. It termed it as an assault on democracy and organised protests throughout Telangana.