JOIN USThe police on Monday arrested four persons, two of them IT professionals for posting the content, but the brain behind it has fled to Saudi Arabia.
The six-minute video, based on an Indian epic and having controversial content, was posted on YouTube, a Google subsidiary, about three months ago. But Google remained “indifferent” to the police request to withdraw the content.
“Although the video clipping is based on a mythological serial, its background was altered to include some objectionable content,’’ said a senior official of the cyber police station . The YouTube video received lakhs of hits across the globe before it was noticed by the police.
Since then, several notices were sent to the legal head of Google here asking the company to block the content immediately. But sources said the company took no action. Finally in the last week a whole battery of policemen landed at the Google office in the Hitech city and buttonholed Chakrapani Reddy, the legal head of the company.
They threatened severe action if the content was not blocked forthwith. The company which evaded action for almost three months complied within two hours and blocked the video.
After getting the video blocked, the police have got down to investigating the people behind it. Though they suspected the hand of known fundamentalists in the city, evidence in hand indicated otherwise.
One of the four young men arrested for the post, Gubash, who works at a mall at Kachiguda, has allegedly been sending SMSes to popularise the video. Sleuths kept a watch on him and arrested him two days ago. Now, the police plan to file a case against the youth and also make Google as an accomplice.
After the interrogation, Gubash led the police to his collaborators, Mohsin, Taha and Faisal. However, the brain behind the video, Farooq has already fled to Saudi Arabia.