According to an English daily report, In a major breach of security of the Prime Minister, a local Telugu news channel showed live transmission of the dinner hosted for PM Modi for Ivanka Trump at the Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad. This sent shockwaves across the Special Protection Group and the PMO as the media people were not allowed at the event.
Turns out, the live feed was from the Police Commissioners office in Hyderabad where a control room had been set up. The cameras installed at Falaknuma palace for monitoring and security purposes sent live feed to this control room and this is where the local news channel got their live images from. The telecast was stopped only after the SPG director called up the DGP of Telangana and asked him to stop the transmission.
This incident has raised a lot of questions regarding the security of VVIPs as well as the breach of privacy and protocol. The Telangana Govt. will surely have to answer for this security breach.
