Overview

• A Kerala Police special investigation team led by Munambam DySP S. Jayakrishnan is examining sexually explicit, defamatory posts targeting CPI(M) leader KJ Shine.
• Shine’s September 19 complaint led to an FIR naming local Congress leader C. K. Gopalakrishnan and political commentator K. M. Shajahan under BNS, IT Act and Kerala Police Act provisions.
• Investigators have requested account and user details from Meta to trace the operators of the social media handles, according to media reports.
• Gopalakrishnan’s wife, Sherley, has lodged a separate complaint alleging online abuse by purported Left supporters, which police forwarded to the Ernakulam Rural Cyber Crime station.
• Additional complaints have been filed by Vypeen MLA K. N. Unnikrishnan and four CPI(M) MLAs in Ernakulam, and the SIT plans a combined review of overlapping demands as the probe continues.