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Seventy 3 accused, including individuals and societal media handles, person been booked by the Cyber Crimes helping of the Cyberabad constabulary connected Monday (January 12, 2026) for carrying retired sustained online abuse, intersexual harassment, transgression intimidation and defamation of Telugu movie histrion Anasuya Bharadwaj.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) accessed by The Hindu, among the accused were Mother Rural Education Society’s manager Bojja Sandhya Reddy; nationalist commentators Priya Chowdary Gogineni and Vijayalakshmi; societal media influencer Pavani; creator and commentator Shekhar Bhasa alias Raja Sekhar Gudimella; advocator Rajni and creator Paadala Kalyani, besides known arsenic Karate Kalyani. It besides lists media professionals specified arsenic Rohit, a tv anchor with Big TV Telugu News; Durga, a journalist, and Manoj Ejjagiri, a TV anchor with the RTV News Network. In summation to individuals, the ailment names aggregate tv and online media platforms and societal media pages, including Big TV Telugu, 10TV Entertainment, 10TV News Telugu, 5Max TV, Always Cinema Live, APTalks 24x7, Balagam TV, RTV Andhra Pradesh, RTV News Network, PMR TV Telangana and respective different integer media channels accused of amplifying and circulating the ‘abusive content’.
Anasuya Bharadwaj, a 40-year-old histrion residing successful Manikonda, approached the Police seeking contiguous involution against aggregate offences committed against her continuously and publically from December 23, 2025 onwards.
In her elaborate ailment missive dated January 12, the histrion stated that the series of events began connected December 22, 2025, erstwhile a Telugu histrion made derogatory remarks astatine a nationalist lawsuit astir women’s covering worn by movie actresses and utilized obscene words portion referring to women’s bodies. She said these comments sparked wide nationalist outrage and debate.
She further stated that connected December 23, during the inauguration of a covering mall, media unit approached her for her absorption to the controversy. Ms. Anasuya Bharadwaj told the constabulary that she had expressed her sentiment respectfully and calmly, supporting idiosyncratic state and idiosyncratic choice, and that she did truthful arsenic a chap personage with nationalist designation successful the Telugu states.
According to the complaint, the concern escalated the pursuing time erstwhile the histrion held a property conscionable connected December 24 and referred to her by sanction portion discussing her views. She alleged that aft this, respective tv channels, online media pages and integer contented creators began amplifying the contented successful a mode that deliberately targeted her, provoking absorption and hostility towards her stance.
The histrion stated that soon thereafter, societal media users began sending her sexually abusive, obscene and threatening messages and posting derogatory comments connected her societal media accounts. Ms. Anasuya Bharadwaj said she initially hoped the maltreatment would halt connected its own, but alternatively it continued unabated and intensified implicit the adjacent respective days arsenic tv debates, online videos, unrecorded streams and reels became progressively assertive and abusive.
M. Anasuya Bharadwaj said online maltreatment escalated into nonstop threats to onslaught her and members of her family, causing her superior fearfulness for their safety. The complainant further stated that the maltreatment extended to the manipulation of her images and videos done AI-generated deepfakes and morphed content, which were circulated online with sexually suggestive edits and derogatory commentary. She alleged that the content, shared without her consent, amounted to voyeurism and the work of obscene material, and was utilized arsenic a instrumentality to intimidate, humiliate and endanger her and her family.
She claimed that these actions had damaged her nationalist lasting and creator credibility and caused her terrible intelligence distress.
The ailment includes dozens of circumstantial URLs, video links, reels and live-streamed programmes aired connected YouTube, Instagram and X, arsenic good arsenic galore societal media handles accused of posting profanities, obscene remarks and sexually harassing content. Several online media pages and channels person besides been named for allegedly amplifying and circulating abusive material.
The complainant told constabulary that the acts amounted to large-scale nationalist provocation, intersexual harassment, transgression intimidation and defamation, carried retired some individually and collectively, and sought strict enactment against each offenders successful accordance with the law.
Following the complaint, the lawsuit was booked nether the Sections 75 and 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, relating to intersexual harassment and word, motion oregon acts intended to insult the modesty of a woman; Section 336(4) dealing with forgery, Sections 351 and 356 pertaining to transgression intimidation and defamation, on with Sections 66-E and 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, which woody with usurpation of privateness and the publishing oregon transmission of obscene worldly successful physics form.
The constabulary said they volition analyse the integer grounds cited successful the complaint, place and hint the operators of the societal media accounts and media pages involved, and instrumentality further enactment arsenic per ineligible procedure.
