Misuse of cyber security wing: RS Praveen Kumar demands withdrawal of cases booked against BRS social media warriors

The BRS government had established the CSB with the sole intention of preventing and controlling cybercrimes. It was set up to save the public, public institutions and other entities from cyber threats. However, the CSB was being misused by the Congress to book fabricated and illegal cases against social media warriors, he said.

Hyderabad: Condemning the unauthorized use of the Cyber Security Bureau (CSB) in violating citizen rights, former IPS officer and senior BRS leader RS Praveen Kumar demanded that State government withdraw all the fabricated cases booked against social media warriors and BRS activists who exposed the Congress government’s failures.

The BRS government had established the CSB with the sole intention of preventing and controlling cybercrimes. It was set up to save the public, public institutions and other entities from cyber threats. However, the CSB was being misused by the Congress to book fabricated and illegal cases against social media warriors, he said.

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There was a 43 percent increase in cybercrimes in the State. But, in the guise of cyber patrolling, the CSB officials were booking cases on people who even share or repost anything against the Congress government, he charged, citing a case book against the X handle Nalla Balu under section 6 of the IT Act.

Interestingly, only BRS social media activists were being targeted and those affiliated to the Congress and BJP were being spared, the former IPS officer said.

Cyber patrolling should be conducted in the Secretariat to detect corruption and the delay in processing files. In CCLA, where land related issues were kept unaddressed for over a year and in HMDA where realtors were struggling to get their files processed as well, it should be used, he said.

Senior police officers were blindly following the instructions from the Chief Minister’s Office and not working as per law and rules. FIRs were being manufactured from Gandhi Bhavan and after instructions from the CMO, cases were being booked, he said.

When a question paper got leaked in Nakrekal, three FIRs were issued against BRS working president KT Rama Rao, OU research scholar Manne Krishank and Telangana Digital Media former director Dileep Konatham. When BRS leaders lodge complaints, no FIRs were being issued, he said and asked: “Where is transparency?”

The police was supposed to be unbiased but strangely when Congress leader Mynampally Hanumantha Rao threatened to kill Harish Rao and KT Rama Rao by setting them ablaze with petrol, no action was taken by the Siddipet police. But the same Siddipet Commissioner registers a sup moto case against a person.

“Is this not being biased?” he asked.

Similarly, Konatham Dileep and woman journalist Revathi were booked under section 111 which refers to human trafficking, drug smuggling, online frauds and other organised crimes. Did these two people commit any such offenses, he asked.

The only affected person in the State was Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy. He was the victim, he was the complainant, he was the investigating officer and now he was also acting as a magistrate. All these were deception and diversion tactics of the Chief Minister, he observed.

Police officers should stop working with partisan attitude. Most of them were in the false notion that they could escape after retirement or getting transferred. None would be spared once the BRS government comes to power. A special tribunal would be constituted and all the officers, who worked with bias would have to face action, he warned.