Overview

• Cyber Crime police issued a September 23 memo implementing a September 5 directive from DGP Jitender to open suspect or history sheets and seek compliance from stations.
• The order covers habitual social media offences and financial frauds and permits sheets under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for individuals classified as suspects without convictions, with Telangana State Police Manual provisions cited.
• Internal communications state that 69 history sheets have already been opened by cybercrime units under the new approach.
• A senior Hyderabad police official said the measure is needed to curb repeat trolling, defamation and targeting of women and other vulnerable groups.
• Opposition figures from the BRS and BJP argue the term “social media offenders” is ambiguous and could enable harassment of political critics as the Home Department functions under Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy.