Jayanagar MLA C K Ramamurthy files police complaint over hacked social media account

Bengaluru: Jayanagar MLA C.K. Ramamurthy on Wednesday filed a complaint with CEN South police alleging that his Facebook ID was hacked and a fake account was created on Instagram to send random messages to women using his account.

According to Ramamurthy, the hackers sent “good morning” messages to a woman. He approached the police seeking legal action and the deletion of the fake Instagram account created in his name, besides the restoration of his hacked Facebook ID.

Speaking to DH, Ramamurthy said that the act was aimed at damaging his political career. “To damage my image, miscreants hacked my Facebook ID and also created a fake account in my name. They demanded money to release the account while random messages were sent to girls through Instagram to malign me,” he said.

He further claimed that he suspects the involvement of some Congress party workers behind the incident.

“I believe some Congress workers are behind this to damage my political career,” he alleged.

Ramamurthy said he failed to notice the hacking initially as he was busy attending to a relative who was hospitalised after meeting with an accident. “I came to know about the incident only after my followers alerted me. Soon after that, I filed a complaint with the police,” he added.

Police said they are looking into the complaint.