HYDERABAD: The fight between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh turned ugly on Tuesday with the former alleging plagiarism by the latter while submitting online details with the Union government on ' Ease of Doing Business ' rankings. Telangana has lodged a police complaint with the Cyber Crime Police alleging that some of its key application formats pertaining to commercial courts from its website were copied by AP.Both the Telugu-speaking states are now fiercely competing for top ranks in Ease of Doing Business, which was introduced by the World Bank last year. Andhra stood second in rankings last year after Gujarat, while Telangana ended up 16th.Telangana, which has been striving hard to improve its rankings this year to emerge among the top three, claims to have improved its ranking substantially on the dynamic dashboard of the Union government to emerge second. As per the dynamic dashboard ratings displayed on the website of the ministry of commerce and industry on Tuesday, Telangana continued with the second rank, followed by Andhra at the third position, while Uttarakhand was at the first position.Addressing reporters at the Telangana secretariat, its industries secretary Arvind Kumar accused Andhra of stealing their copy right information. He claimed that AP has copied even the typographical errors from Telangana's websites.The Telangana industries minister K Taraka Rama Rao , who is also the son of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao , wrote to the Union commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman saying that their "efforts shouldn't be undermined by some other states by adopting practices which aren't exactly fair or transparent and often are just for the compliance sake without having actually carried them out".Refuting the allegations of Telangana officials, Parakala Prabhakar, communications advisor to the AP government, told ET, "This is pure and simple slander. The kind of reforms that we brought in our clearances is well known throughout the country and the world.The World Economic Forum has recognised it. We have an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of National University of Singapore, to help shore up our process of Ease of Doing Business."