Hyderabad: Telangana Cyber Crime police seized actor Sivaji's passport on Wednesday. Sivaji was earlier caught by the Cyber Crime police at the Hyderabad International Airport on Wednesday morning, while he was trying to flee the country. Look Out Notices were issued earlier by the police and based on this the Immigration Officers at the Airport had informed the police about his departure. It is said that he had booked a ticket to New York and was trying to exit the country quietly.

Even at the airport, he was said to have behaved rudely with police officials at the airport, saying that they had no right to stop or take him under custody. Even after being taken to the police station, he was said to be uncooperative with the police and demanded to be released immediately.

The Police had issued notices again to him under Section 41 of the CRPC as per the courts directive and asked him to come on July 11 for questioning, in this course, they seized his passport and asked him not to leave the city until the questioning, and investigation is over.

The police on April 30 booked Siivaji along with former TV9 CEO V Ravi Prakash and CFO MKVN Murthy for forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy on a complaint filed by Alanda Media & Entertainments Pvt Ltd after the latter acquired majority stakes in Associated Broadcasting Pvt Ltd (ABCPL), the owner of the TV9 group of channels.

Cyberabad police had booked two cases against them on two complaints by Alanda Media Additional Director P. Kaushik Rao. They were charged with forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy.

In May, the Telangana police issued lookout notices against Ravi Prakash and Shivaji, who is said to be a shareholder in the company, after they failed to appear before the police despite being issued several notices. The airports were also alerted to prevent them from fleeing abroad. Ravi Prakash finally appeared before police on June 5 after the Supreme Court rejected his plea for anticipatory bail.

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