vijayawada in a slew of instances police have booked four persons and suspended a government official during the last 15 days across the state for allegedly criticising the chief minister on social mediaapart from this police have booked another man for making false claims of red sanders smugglers turning into illegal liquor sellers on social mediathe recent case registered at crime investigation department cid police station in amaravati against one p ranganayaki from guntur town for making objectionable remarks against the government on facebook on the lg polymer gas leak has created a political storma day after producing an arrest notice against her one malladi raghunath was booked as accused number two in the same case for sharing her post the cid has issued statements via press releases justifying the arrest of p ranganayaki citing her as habitually trying to mislead the public by projecting antigovernment feelings ill feelings among public the cid has included a facebook post by ranganayaki as an example of projecting antigovernment feelings which takes a dig at jaganmohan reddys ammavodi rythu bharosa rtc merger with the government monetary aid for auto drivers and the threecapital issuethe main accused poonuthota ranganayaki 60 is being projected as champion of lg polymers issue of visakhapatnam lg polymers issue is one among the other issues against her the cid press release readsthe cid states that the post is a creation of superstitions against the government of ap and that it cannot be justified as expression of personal opinion her intention is not for justice in the lg polymers issue but there is a clear design and purpose to create and spread disaffection towards the democratically elected government by engineering such misleading social media posts the cid statedprior to this case the police department had suspended an executive engineer m v vidyasagar for allegedly abusing the cm in a whatsapp chat meanwhile activists objected to governments suo moto criminal action as a means of curbing free speech some of these posts merely criticise the government on issues that are affecting people in all four cases the government should take constructive criticism in the right spirit namburi sreemanarayana poura hakkula sangham joint secretary told toi