The website of Rachakonda Police Commissionerate is not accessible
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Websites of the Cyberabad and Rachakonda Police Commissionerates were taken offline after they began redirecting users to gaming pages. Senior police officials confirmed to The Hindu that the issue was first detected by the department’s IT cell, which noticed that visitors attempting to access the sites were being redirected to external gaming/betting links.
The Cyberabad and Rachakonda sites began malfunctioning about a week ago. Citizens seeking police station contacts or other public services were met with repeated “site can’t be reached” and “destination not reachable” errors, indicating gateway failures.
Following the discovery, the IT cell approached a Delhi-based cyber security firm working under NIC’s supervision to identify and fix vulnerabilities. Officials said both police sites are expected to be restored in the coming days.
Cyberabad police officials said the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which hosts the police websites along with several other government portals, had “immediately taken up restoration work”.
“NIC is currently working on the backend and the sites should be back within a day or two,” said Cyberabad Cyber Crimes DCP YVS Sudheendra, adding that there was no evidence so far of any data compromise. Cyberabad Police Commissioner Avinash Mohanty said that NIC had been testing the pages and expected them to go live by Thursday evening.
The disruption comes days after the Telangana High Court’s website was breached. Staff at the court discovered on November 11 that several PDF documents on the portal, tshc.gov.in, had been tampered with and were redirecting to a gaming site called BDG SLOT. High Court Registrar (IT), T. Venkateswara Rao, alerted the Director-General of Police and filed a complaint with the Hyderabad cyber crime police. The website, also hosted by NIC, carries crucial judicial information, including cause lists and case status updates.
In fact, in June 2024, the Telangana Police’s official website and associated Commissionerate portals were shut down for maintenance after multiple data-breaches and hacks affecting internal police apps and systems. At that time, the cyber security wing conducted vulnerability assessments and penetration tests across all internal and public-facing platforms to plug security gaps before restoring service.
Rachakonda Cyber Crimes DCP, B. Anuradha, said the sites were deliberately taken down by the police “for upgradation following NIC’s advice”, adding that the process might take around 10 days.
Published – December 04, 2025 12:38 pm IST
