HYDERABAD: Cyber crime sleuths of Hyderabad have registered a suo motu case against against two persons for making an objectionable video referring to Lord Shiva and putting it up on Instagram.
After BJP MLA T Raja Singh and former MLC N Ramchander Rao appealed to police to register an FIR against the offenders while referring to the video circulating on social media with content hurting religious sentiments of people, police registered a suo motu case on Monday.
“Using derogatory, unacceptable language causing severe pain to the emotions of Hindus.
These acts may even lead to communal violence.
I Urge @TelanganaDGP to file FIR and take immediate action,” former BJP MLC N Ramchander Rao tweeted while referring to the objectionable video.
MLA Raja Singh also requested the DGP to take action against the two persons, who are residents of Hyderabad for putting up the video mocking gods.
“We have registered a suo motu case under Section 153-A of the IPC against the offenders who uploaded the video on their Instagram account.
We have written to Instagram seeking the details of the accused,” assistant commissioner of police (ACP), cyber crime, KVM Prasad said.
On Monday, the video was removed from the Instagram account and an apology has been put up on the account mentioning, “we have decided to take down the entire three part video permanently.
We sincerely apologise to anyone whom we have unintentionally offended with this video.”