Hyderabad: The founder of a Web portal called SimpliCity was arrested on Thursday on a complaint from a city corporation official and produced before a magistrate who remanded him to judicial custody.
Besides the founder, a journalist and a photographer of the portal were also taken into custody for questioning and were let off later. However, the founder Andrew was arrested under Sections 188, 505 (i) of the IPC and Section 3 of the Epidemic Diseases Act on Wednesday.
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The FIR filed by the officer said that the portal was involved in spreading false information regarding the way the government healthcare department and the PDS employees were operating.
The portal made allegations against the PDS employees stating that they were stealing relief funds. "These kinds of reports would demotivate the healthcare workers and PDS employees," the complaint stated.
The arrest of the portal member and their questioning has been criticised by the journalists' forum in Coimbatore and Tiruppur. Coimbatore CPI-M MP PR Natarajan condemned the arrest of Pandiarajan.
