Thiruvananthapuram, Feb. 24 -- A petition has been filed in the Kerala high court claiming that the chief minister's office (CMO) accessed personal information of government employees, including their mobile numbers and e-mail IDs, from the official e-governance portal for a bulk messaging campaign to highlight the achievements of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government.

The plea has been filed by an official of the department of general administration of the state government along with an associate professor of KTM College in Malappuram.

It is alleged that the CMO violated all norms of data protection by collecting data from the Service Pay Roll Administrative Repository for Kerala (SPARK) portal and other similar government portals...