Bengaluru, Nov. 20 -- Senior officers in the city police team investigating the alleged leak of a series of purported videos showing high-profile inmates at the Bengaluru Central Jail at Parappana Agrahara have formally written to US-based tech giant Meta, seeking details of the WhatsApp accounts through which the clips were allegedly spread all over the internet, police said on Wednesday.

Police said that they have sent the company the footage in question and requested information on the devices used to record and circulate the material. "We have sought details of the mobile device used to record these videos, the phone numbers from which they were forwarded and the accounts that received them," an officer familiar with the communicatio...