Hyderabad, Jan. 12 -- The Telangana IAS and IPS Officers' Association lodged a complaint with Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar against several private news channels over the telecast of what they described as "defamatory and baseless content" targeting women IAS officers and a state minister.

The Hyderabad Central Crime Station officials have booked cases against NTV, Telugu Scribe, MR Media Telangana, Prime9 Telangana, PVNews, Signal TV, Volga Times, MirrorTyOfficial and Tnews Telugu.

A case under sections 75 (sexual harassment), 78 (stalking), 79 (penalizes any word, gesture, sound, or act intended to insult the modesty or intrude upon the privacy of a woman), 351(1) (criminal intimidation) and 352 (2) (intentional insult wit...