E-mail scandal: Purposeful distortion of facts, says CM

Wednesday, January 18, 2012: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today opined that the news published on e-mail hacking of leaders, activists, professionals, students and journalists of minority community was purposeful distortion of facts.
Speaking to the reporters here on Wednesday, Chandy stated that the media should show restrain while giving such news, as it would hamper the communal harmony. He said that Madhyamam weekly which gave the news has not published the complete list and provided the lists after removing the emails of people belonging to other communities. He said the weekly must come clear on this.
The CM said investigating officers got 268 mail ids from a person and they were handed over to the hi-tech cell of the police to obtain the addresses of the persons who had created the ids. The attempt was made only to know the identity of persons in whose names the mail ids were created and there was no effort made to hack the password or contents in these mail ids, he said.