The Bengaluru police on Tuesday booked a case on a criticism filed by actress and former Congress MP Ramya in opposition to 43 social media accounts for allegedly sending vulgar and threatening messages to her over a social media publish on the Renukaswamy homicide case, by which widespread Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa is an accused.
A Central Crime Department (CCB) officer of the rank of deputy commissioner of police will supervise the investigation, officers stated.
In her criticism filed on Monday, Ramya claimed that the social media accounts have been being operated by Darshan Thoogudeepa’s followers. Darshan was arrested on June 11 final yr along with his buddy Pavithra Gowda and 15 others in reference to the homicide of Renukaswamy, a resident of Chitradurga, who had allegedly despatched derogatory messages to Gowda.
Darshan was launched on October 30, 2024, on interim bail after spending 131 days in jail. On December 13, 2024, the Karnataka Excessive Court docket granted common bail to Darshan and Pavithra Gowda.
Lately, after the state authorities challenged the bail granted to Darshan, the Supreme Court docket criticised the excessive courtroom order within the case. Ramya made a social media publish in regards to the Supreme Court docket remarks, after which she stated she acquired abusive, vulgar, and threatening messages on social media.
The police registered the case underneath sections 67 (publishing or transmitting of obscene materials in digital kind) and 66 C (id theft) of the Data Expertise Act and sections 351 (prison intimidation), 352 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of peace), 75 (sexual harassment), and 79 (phrase, gesture or act supposed to insult the modesty of a lady) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Dwelling Minister G Parameshwara stated the police have been initiating the motion contemplating the seriousness of the difficulty. “Such behaviour impacts not simply Ramya however doubtlessly any girl. We have to ‘put a full cease to this’ sample of on-line abuse,” he added.