States »SoutPosted at: Nov 11 2021 4:44PM Derogatory posts against judges : CBI files six more chargesheets against accused
Hyderabad, Nov 11 (UNI) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed six more chargesheets separately against the accused in the ongoing investigation of a case related to derogatory posts on social media against Judges and Judiciary including some of the Court verdicts delivered by Judges of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh.
These accused were arrested by the CBI on October 22 from different places in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and all the accused are presently in Judicial Custody, the CBI said in a release here on Thursday.
During investigation, the CBI had earlier arrested five accused and also filed five separate chargesheets against them.
With this, 11 separate chargesheets have been filed against all the eleven accused arrested by CBI so far in the case.
Investigation against one more accused is in progress towards gathering evidence against him. His Youtube channel has also been blocked., the release said.
Moreover, Warrants of arrest have been taken by the CBI in the names of two of the accused, who are abroad from the Competent Courts in India and the process for arresting them has been initiated through diplomatic channels.
The CBI gathered information about the accused, who are abroad by issuing Blue Notice through Interpol.
Action was also initiated by CBI, after it had registered the case to get objectionable posts removed from the social media platforms, public domains and a lot of such posts/accounts were removed from the internet.
During investigation, a total of 13 digital gadgets including mobiles, tablets have been recovered.
Around 12 accused and 14 others were examined in the case.
During examination, evidence from digital platforms have also been collected using Digital Forensic Technique.
CBI moved through Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) channel for gathering the information related to the Facebook profiles of the accused, Twitter accounts, Facebook posts, tweets, youtube videos from Facebook, Twitter and Google.
The Central Investigating Agency had registered the instant case on Wednesday against 16 accused and taken over the investigation of 12 FIRs from CID, State of Andhra Pradesh in pursuance of the orders of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in writ petition in last year.
The original FIRs were registered on the complaints from the Registrar General of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh.
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