After the website of Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy was reportedly hacked, the Cybercrime Police registered a case.
The website was hacked allegedly by Pakistan-based hackers who posted content about Kashmir and Pakistan. Mr Reddy’s website is reportedly unavailable since then.
When contacted, Avinash Mohanty, Joint Commissioner of Police, Detective Department confirmed that a case has been registered under relevant sections of the IT Act.
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Case re-registered
In a separate case, the Central Crime Station on Tuesday re-registered a case which was transferred from the Panjagutta police station. The case pertains to sexual assault by 143 persons as alleged by a woman complainant. The victim had stated that three months after her marriage in 2010, her in-laws and others had harassed and sexually assaulted her. The Panjagutta police station had booked a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code as well as the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
In a third case, the Cybercrime Police registered a case against unknown persons for allegedly circulating a video clip which purportedly showed two groups of people from the same community involved in a quarrel. The clip was allegedly circulated and portrayed as a skirmish between broups belonging to different communities.
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“A small quarrel which took place within the same community in Moghalpura was settled by police and community elders. Some mischief makers have uploaded a video and projected it as an inter-community issue. Such trouble makers are warned not to indulge in these mischievs (sic),” Hyderabad Commissioner of Police Anjani Kumar tweeted.