Mysuru: The police have closed a case filed by a former tahsildar against an RTI activist accusing the latter of uploading the voice record of his conversation with a colleague on social media, as it was found during the probe that it was the tahsildar who himself accidentally uploaded the conversation.RTI activist B N Nagendra told TOI that the police closed the case filed against him by tehsildar Ramesh Babu because there was no truth in it.On February 12, tehsildar Babu (since transferred to Madhugiri taluk) had given a complaint to the inspector of cyber crime branch, Ashokapuram, claiming that RTI activist Nagendra had uploaded the voice record of his telephone conversation with tahsildar Renukumar on social media.Babu had said that his mobile phone had an inbuilt voice recorder app and it recorded the conversation between him and his colleague Renukumar. However, while deleting the conversation from the mobile, he accidentally uploaded the voice record to the WhatsApp group of the official taluk office which was named ‘My Team’. One of the staff members forwarded the voice record to RTI activist Nagendra’s WhatsApp. Nagendra, in order to damage their name, uploaded the official conversation in the social media and to a television news channel, he claimed.Cyber-crime police replied to Babu stating that they questioned Nagendra and that it cannot be investigated as complainant Ramesh Babu, the group admin of WhatsApp group ‘My Team’, had himself uploaded the conversation recorded in his mobile phone.When TOI contacted Ramesh Babu, he said that since the police stated that they cannot investigate, he too decided not to pursue the case any further.

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