Police in Hyderabad and Cyberabad on Wednesday arrested two more persons for posting abusive and derogatory comments on Facebook in the wake of the gangrape and murder of a woman veterinarian on November 27. This is the third such arrest of persons for posting derogatory messages on social media, relating to the gruesome crime.
Hyderabad police took into custody Sai Nath of Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district for posting objectionable comments about the victim. He is the second youth to be arrested for derogatory comments.
Meanwhile, Cyberabad Police also arrested Anil Kumar Ambala, 28, a resident of Gundrampally Village in Telangana's Nalgonda district, for making an abusive comment about ex-MP K Kavitha on Facebook while reacting to the gruesome crime.
Police acted on the complaint filed with the SHE team by Vijaya Kesari, a resident of Hyderabad, who found the comment by Anil Kumar as vulgar and objectionable.
Hyderabad police had on Tuesday arrested 22-year-old Chavan Sriram for allegedly making a derogatory comment on social media about the victim. Sriram, is a resident of Nizamabad district of Telangana, and was nabbed for making the vulgar comment on Facebook about Disha*, as the victim of the horrific crime is being called by the police. He was allegedly posting the derogatory messages using a Facebook profile under the name Stalin Sriram.
Police on November 30 had registered a suo motu case against some unknown persons who uploaded photos of the recent victim of sexual violence and murder, and posted objectionable comments with Facebook profile 'Stalin Sriram' and others. "These posts are very derogatory, obscene and vulgar," the police had said.
Speaking to TNM, the police had made it clear that such offenders could be prosecuted under the Information Technology Act coupled with IPC section 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman).
The veterinarian was gang-raped and murdered by four persons near Outer Ring Road at Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad on the night of November 27. They later dumped the body near Shadnagar town and set the body on fire.
(With inputs from IANS)