Hyderabad:A 29-year-old YouTuber was apprehended from Bengaluru on Wednesday in connection with an FIR filed over "inappropriate" comments about a child, the Telangana Cyber Security Bureau said.
Praneeth Hanumantu, a native of Andhra Pradesh and a resident of Begumpet here, is the main accused in the FIR registered on July 7 at Cyber Crime police station in the Telangana Cyber Security Bureau, an official release said. "He has been absconding since the matter came to light," it said.
The case involves a group of individuals engaged in "vulgar" and "obscene" conversations about a father-daughter relationship on a YouTube podcast, the release said. The accused is being produced before the local magistrate in Bengaluru for a transit warrant (to bring him to Hyderabad). Efforts are on to apprehend the other accused, the release added.