Telangana excessive courtroom on Wednesday directed the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) of the state police to serve recent summons to Bharatiya Janata Occasion nationwide normal secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh asking him to look earlier than the investigation officer for questioning within the case associated to an alleged try to poach 4 Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLAs.
A excessive courtroom bench headed by justice B Vijaysen Reddy handed the orders asking the SIT authorities to ship recent notices to Santhosh by way of e-mail and WhatsApp underneath Part 41-A of the Felony Process Code with a selected date on which he ought to seem earlier than the investigation officer.
The excessive courtroom bench, nevertheless, rejected the plea of state advocate normal B R Prasad in search of to carry the keep on Santhosh’s arrest, in case he doesn’t flip up earlier than the SIT for questioning once more. It requested the advocate normal to file a counter on November 29 and posted the case for additional listening to on November 30.
The advocate normal reminded the excessive courtroom of the sooner discover served, underneath Part 41-A of CrPC, to Santhosh by way of Delhi police at his workplace on November 20. Santhosh, nevertheless, didn’t seem earlier than the investigating officer for questioning on November 21. The BJP chief expressed his lack of ability to attend the inquiry as he was travelling.
The choose requested the petitioner – G Premender Reddy of the Telangana Bharatiya Janata Occasion – to make sure that Santhosh seems earlier than the SIT as per the discover.
Santhosh, together with three others, together with a health care provider with Amrutha Institute of Medical Sciences in Ernakulam, Dr Kottilil Narayan Jaggu alias Jaggu Swamy, founder-president of Bharat Dharmika Jana Sena of Kerala, Tushar Vellapally, and senior advocate from Karimnagar, B Srinivas, had been issued notices by the SIT on November 16 for questioning.
Of them, solely Srinivas appeared earlier than the SIT on November 21 and 22 for questioning and the remaining three didn’t take the notices. The SIT issued lookout notices on Jaggu Swamy to know his whereabouts.
The 4 suspects had been summoned by the SIT, because the investigation revealed that they had been involved with the three accused – Ramachandra Bharati from Faridabad, Nanda Kumar from Hyderabad and Simhayaji Swamy from Tirupati.
The accused had been arrested from a farmhouse on the outskirts of Hyderabad on October 26, whereas they had been allegedly luring the 4 TRS MLAs, Pilot Rohit Reddy, Guvvala Balaraju, B Harshavardhan Reddy and Rega Kantha Rao, into the BJP by providing enormous cash, apart from posts and contracts.
In the meantime, the Banjara Hills police on Wednesday booked a case towards Ramachandra Bharati for allegedly holding a passport underneath a pseudonym.
A police official aware about the investigation mentioned it was revealed throughout the probe that Bharati had obtained a passport within the identify of Kumar Sharma of Karnataka. The SIT officers had discovered the copy of the passport within the laptop computer and iPhone allegedly belonging to Bharati.
The Banjara Hills police had already booked a case towards him for possessing a number of PAN, Aadhaar playing cards and driving licences.