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Director of Industries and Commerce K Gopalakrishnan. (Source: Kerala Bureau of Industrial Promotion)
Senior Kerala constabulary officers accidental they person recovered small to substantiate Director of Industries and Commerce K Gopalakrishnan’s assertion that his telephone was hacked earlier caller WhatsApp groups, with him arsenic the admin, were created for IAS officers, allegedly connected the ground of religion.
On October 30, a WhatsApp radical called “Mallu Hindu Officers” was formed, successful which elder IAS officers were added arsenic members, and Gopalakrishnan was the admin. It was deleted hours aboriginal arsenic respective officials flagged the impropriety of specified a group.
As the contented snowballed into a controversy, Gopalakrishnan said his telephone was hacked aft which 11 groups, including 1 called “Mallu Muslim Officers”, were formed.
On November 4, the IAS serviceman filed a ailment with the Thiruvananthapuram metropolis police, reiterating his claim.
Police subsequently sought a study from WhatsApp arsenic portion of their probe to find whether the telephone was hacked.
“The study from WhatsApp has not conclusively proved that the mobile telephone was hacked. The forensic study of the mobile telephone besides said the gadget was reset 3 oregon 4 times. The serviceman (Gopalakrishnan) sticks to his mentation that the mobile telephone was hacked, but determination is nary reply connected wherefore the gadget was reset. Since each information was deleted, we could not find overmuch to backmost the assertion that the telephone was hacked,” a elder constabulary serviceman said.
Police sources said a study has been submitted to the DGP, and that it is present up to the authorities to instrumentality a decision.
Gopalakrishnan declined to remark connected the issue, saying helium would lone bash truthful aft getting the constabulary study connected his complaint.
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