Puthuppally Bypoll: Oommen Chandy's Daughter Files Complaint Over Cyber Attacks

Achu criticised the purported cyberattacks on her in the context of the approaching Puthuppally byelection.

Achu Oommen, the younger daughter of former late CM of Kerala Oommen Chandy, gave a complaint against the alleged cyberattacks on her to the cyber police. She filed a complaint against a person in Thiruvananthapuram alleging that he had made disparaging comments about her on his Facebook page on Monday.

In the complaint, Achu Oommen, as per PTI, said, "The accused has purposefully lied to the public with the culpable and malicious intention to defame the complainant and thereby to spread an untrue, false and scandalous imputation against the complainant that she and her late father are corrupt."

Achu criticised the purported cyberattacks on her in the context of the approaching Puthuppally byelection and claimed they were intended to draw attention away from the state's ongoing problems of "corruption and inflation". 

On August 26, she said that she was a content creator in fashion and travel sector so she had been photographed as part of her profession. However, she said that some vested interest with a deliberate intention to malign her father's reputation misused the photos on the cyber platforms.

Some online media groups have made the personal lives of candidates, their close relatives, and their assets the subject of discussion as the campaign has heated up in Puthuppally, where a bypoll is slated for September 5, as per the report.

Chandy Oommen, Achu's brother and Oommen Chandy's son, is the Congress-UDF candidate in Puthuppally.

Meanwhile, CPI(M) candidate Jaik C Thomas criticised the "cyber attacks" against Achu and said that it was unacceptable to personally insult and humiliate someone. He said, "Whether it was against the former CM's daughter or against the present CM's daughter, it cannot be accepted."