Former Chief MinisterSiddaramaiah Thursday asked Karnataka Home Minister M B Patil to take legal action against people impersonating him on the social media with an intent to malign his identity.
The request comes a day after he tweeted about morphed tweets that has characteristics of his official twitter handle being circulated in the social media.
"Morphed tweets with my official handle are being circulated in social media by few unethical users. This image has a logo of a group 'Troll Sisyandru'.
I urge @BlrCityPolice to take immediate action against those involved &I also request Shri.@MBPatil to look into the issue," Siddaramaiah had tweeted.
The tweet was tagged with a picture of the morphed tweet that read "Today Indian Air Force has attacked on BAGALAKOT.
Deep codomienses to the terrorists families. May their souls rest in piece (sic)."
Siddaramaiah, in a letter to Patil, said he was constrained to report to him, "the criminal act of impersonating my identity on social media with intent of maligning my identity."
"This amounts to making impersonation and defamatory comment on social media and several persons have already asked me about the same, believing the same to be true."