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The Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department (CID) sleuths seized computer hard disks and CDs from Sakshi TV office in Hyderabad on Saturday in connection with the news story on former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy's death.
The CID officials along with local police also quizzed chief executive officer Priyadarshani Ram and other senior editorial staff of the channel.
The channel is owned by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, Congress MP and son of Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy. The seized material contains visual footage of the news report and other related information which was telecast on Thursday evening.
Ram condemned police action and said they just picked up the news inputs from other channels which were already showing the story based on information given on a website.
The city police booked a suo-moto case against Ram and two other senior journalists of the channel-Nemani Bhaskar, inputs editor and Aravind Yadav, executive editor.
Even as journalists and staff of Sakshi TV raised anti-police slogans, Ram defended that the story was not of the channel, but a story that was already on the website.
The police earlier booked cases against two more Telugu news channels-TV-5 and NTV for airing program based on the website story that there could be a conspiracy by Ambani brothers behind the death of Rajasekhara Reddy in a chopper crash in September last year.