TV9 CEO booked in forgery case

High drama prevailed in Telugu electronic media circles on Thursday after the Cyberabad Police carried out surprise checks at the office of popular news channel TV9 and three other places. The searches came in the wake of two cases booked against TV9 Chief Executive Officer V Ravi Prakash and others on charges of cheating, conspiracy and forgery.

The police teams seized documents and electronic evidence. The seized material will be forwarded to the State Forensic Science Laboratory for analysis, officials said. The searches, based on a warrant issued by a court, were conducted at Associated Broadcasting Company (Private) Limited (the TV9 office) at Banjara Hills, the residence of Ravi Prakash



in Banjara Hills, the residence of actor S Shivaji in Himayatnagar and the house of MVKN Murthy, one of the directors of TV9 in Khairatabad.

The two cases were booked based on a complaint lodged by P Kaushik Rao, director of Alanda Media & Entertainments Private Limited, accusing Ravi Prakash, Shivaji and others of forgery by using false documents for their wrongful gain apart from other issues. While one case was registered on April 24 at the Cyberabad Cybercrime police station under Sections 406, 420, 467, 469, 471, 120 (B) of IPC and Sections 66 & 72 of the IT Act, another was registered on April 30 under Sections 420, 468, 471, 120 (B) IPC along with Sections 66-C, 66-D of the IT Act