The Telangana High Court overturned the ACB Special Court judge’s decision, who had ruled against the remand of the three accused led to political turmoil. However, until further court orders, all case-related inquiries are halted.
Conflicting orders from High Court
Two judges of the Telangana High Court on October 29, issued conflicting orders in various petitions related to the alleged abduction of four TRS MLAs by the BJP, leaving Cyberabad police in an odd position and unable to choose how to proceed with the case and causing political turmoil.
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When the High Court’s Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy heard a writ petition from the BJP asking for a CBI or Special Investigation Team investigation into the poaching matter, he issued an interim order directing the police to halt their ongoing investigation.
Interestingly, another Judge from High Court, Justice Chillakur Sumalatha, ordered the three accused in the case to appear before the Cyberabad Police Commissioner, overturning the decision of the judge from the ACB special court who had rejected their request for remand. The police officers were confused which order to follow because there were two orders that conflicted with one another.
Justice Vijaysen Reddy refused to comment on such instruction on the ongoing political turmoil when Additional Advocate General J. Ramchandra Rao pointed out to him that the order was at odds with the order made by Justice Sumalatha Bench just moments before. He added that delaying the investigation for four days will not hinder its progress. He set the next hearing date on November 4.
The judge at the ACB court had stated that while there was no proof that bribe money was involved in the case, the police could issue notices according to section 41(A) of the CrPC and summon the accused for questioning.
About the TRS MLA poaching case followed by the investigation of Cyberabad police
There were several cameras, voice recorders, and a code phrase in the room “nariyal paani layiye.” All of these were a part of a cunning trap set by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the Cyberabad police to catch accused BJP agents in the act of bribing MLAs with crores of rupees to switch parties.
Details on how the police allegedly created a trap to gather evidence during the meeting at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Wednesday, October 26 are included in the remand report that the Cyberabad police handed to the Telangana High Court. Based on a complaint by TRS MLA Pilot Rohith Reddy, police had conducted a raid at the farmhouse where they claimed to have discovered three men who were reportedly attempting to swoop in and take four MLAs from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) for the BJP.
On the basis of a complaint filed by MLA Rohith Reddy, the three accused Nanda Kumar from Hyderabad, Satish Sharma from Delhi and Simhayaji Swamy from Tirupati, were charged with bribery, criminal conspiracy and various other offenses.
The Cyberabad police have described it as a case of “criminal intimidation to topple & destabilize democratically elected state government” and “inducement of money to the TRS MLAs to defect the ruling party of the state”
Tandur MLA Pilot Rohith Reddy, Achampet MLA Guvvala Balaraju, Pinapaka MLA Rega Kantha Rao and Kollapur MLA Harshvardhan Reddy were the four MLAs present at the farmhouse. The four MLAs allegedly received offers of between Rs 50 and Rs 100 crore, in addition to contracts and significant posts in the union government, in exchange for switching parties, according to the police.
Additional inputs from the meeting according to remand report
Rajendranagar Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) B Gangadhar dispatched two mediators to the crime scene after receiving MLA Rohith Reddy’s complaint. The report stated that “Electronic spy equipment was set inside the hall at the complainant’s farmhouse,” where the meeting was held.
Four devices were reportedly installed around the room after Rohith Reddy informed the police about the seating arrangements. On either side of Rohith Reddy’s kurta, two voice recorders were placed, the report claimed.
According to the report, Rohith Reddy was instructed to say “nariyal panni layiye” (bring coconut water) to his employee in order to let the police know that the meeting with the accused was over. TRS claimed that after completing these arrangements, Rohith Reddy left the farmhouse to meet with the accused while the ACP and the mediators positioned themselves to witness the conversation.
Additional information included in the remand report states that the spy devices were turned on around 3:05 pm. The three suspects arrived back at the farmhouse at 3:10 pm with Rohith Reddy. Around 4.10 pm, the remaining three MLAs arrived together and joined the meeting, which had already started in the hall. The meeting lasted for roughly three and a half hours. When Rohith Reddy requested for coconut water at 6.30 pm, he was actually informing the police that the meeting was over.
After the signal, ACP, the two mediators and a police inspector then entered the room from their vantage points, according to the report.
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