Telangana: Two journalists arrested for allegedly derogatory video about CM Revanth Reddy

The Hyderabad Police on Wednesday arrested two journalists for a YouTube video allegedly critical of Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, The Indian Express reported.

Revathi Pogadadanda (44), the managing director of the YouTube channel Pulse Digital News Network, and employee Tanvi Yadav (25), alias Bandi Sandhya, were arrested in connection with an allegedly derogatory video shot at the headquarters of the Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi, the newspaper quoted the police as saying.

They were remanded to 14-day judicial custody. The police action was based on a complaint filed by a worker of the state’s ruling Congress party.

The police alleged that Pogadadanda and Yadav were involved in “social media trolling” and had been allegedly connected to two other cases.

The first information report was registered under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita about statements conducing to public mischief, intentional insult to provoke breach of peace, organised crime and criminal conspiracy, and under provisions of the Information Technology Act about transmitting obscene material.

Two laptops, hard disks, among other gadgets, were seized by the police from the Pulse News office.

The complainant alleged that in the video widely shared online, the YouTube channel had interviewed a person, provoking the allegedly derogatory and abusive statements about the chief minister, The Indian Express reported.

A third person was also detained for sharing the video on social...

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