The Telangana Police on Monday detained Sumiran Kommaraju, who heads the social media cell of the state Bharatiya Janata Party, for a poster that “maliciously defamed” Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, The Indian Express reported.

The BJP claimed that two others members of the social media cell, Sai Kiran Goud and Ajay, were also taken into custody.

In the poster pasted outside the Congress’ headquarters in Hyderabad and uploaded on social media , Reddy was shown seated on a chair with multiple robotic arms. Each arm had a piece of paper with corruption allegations and other such claims written on them.

The poster was titled the “Two-year progress report of Congress CM Revanth Reddy”.

The police said that an employee of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation had filed a

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