Hyderabad
The Telangana excessive courtroom’s judgement on Monday transferring the case of alleged try by the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering to poach 4 Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLAs from Particular Investigation Group of the state police to the Central Bureau of Investigation has pushed the ruling get together within the state on the defensive, individuals acquainted with the matter stated.
BRS president and chief minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao, who launched an offensive by engineering a sting operation by his state police on the alleged try to poach his get together MLAs by three individuals, believed to be nearer to the BJP high management, has created in a tough scenario with the excessive courtroom handing over the case to the CBI.
Greater than the sting operation to show the alleged poaching try and constituting a SIT to conduct the probe, what landed KCR in bother is the press convention he had held on November 3 to reveal video and audio clippings of the sting operation and the documentary proof to the reporters.
The chief minister brazenly introduced that he had despatched all the fabric proof and paperwork that run into practically 100,000 pages to Chief Justice of India (CJI), all of the judges of Supreme Courtroom and state excessive courtroom, central investigation companies together with CBI, Enforcement Directorate and Central Vigilance Fee and chief ministers of varied non-BJP dominated states.
Apparently, the BRS chief thought he was exposing the alleged nefarious designs of the BJP high management to topple the democratically-elected governments of non-BJP dominated states. “This proof will shake the BJP authorities on the Centre and can develop into its nemesis,” he claimed then.
However KCR’s technique has now seems to have backfired on him. “In his eagerness to attain a political level over the BJP and expose Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the chief minister has forgotten the very fact he has taken over the position of judiciary by disclosing the audio and video clippings, that are a part of the fabric evidences for investigation. It’s a courtroom property until the trial is accomplished and the chief minister can’t use the identical,” political analyst and writer Sriram Karri stated.
That’s what the excessive courtroom choose additionally stated in his judgement, whereas handing over the case to the CBI. Within the judgement, which was reviewed by HT, Justice B Vijaysen Reddy puzzled how the proof which is a part of essential investigation by the police might go into the fingers of the chief minister.
“This has triggered severe prejudice to the accused, who’re branded publicly as conspirators, thereby, depriving their rights to successfully defend the felony proceedings and availing their authorized treatments below regulation,” the choose stated.
Stating that each accused is deemed to be harmless till confirmed responsible, the excessive courtroom choose stated the counsel for the police or the state authorities had not provided any believable rationalization as to how the video CDs and pen drives which have been seized by the police after due inquest on October 27 have been handed over to the chief minister.
“Who has handed over the identical, when and the way, stays a thriller. Having discovered severe lapses and leakage of investigation materials/CDs, it’s tough to just accept the rivalry of the federal government,” the choose stated.
He felt that it’s tough to imagine that the structure of SIT, which acts below the federal government, is not going to alter the scenario, extra significantly, when the chief minister himself has brazenly circulated the movies and branded the accused and members of the organised crime as conspirators.
“Now that the case has been entrusted to the CBI, it’ll naturally maintain the best to query the chief minister as to how he obtained entry to the proof which is a part of the investigation,” Karri stated.
KCR didn’t cease with releasing the audio and video clippings, apart from documentary evidences to the reporters. He even instantly dragged the names of high BJP leaders, significantly the get together’s organising secretary B L Santosh, into the alleged poaching rip-off.
On November 16, the SIT issued summons to Santosh and three others in search of to query them for his or her position within the poaching of BRS MLAs and even tried to incorporate their names as accused within the FIR by submitting a memo within the Anti-Corruption Bureau courtroom on November 22.
Whereas the ACB courtroom on December 5 struck down the memo, Santosh, managed to get a keep on the summons by the SIT for questioning him until December 30. And on December 26, the excessive courtroom dissolved the SIT altogether.
Santosh, who was in Hyderabad on Thursday for attending a BJP coaching camp, stated those that made allegations in opposition to him must face the results. “Hitherto, I used to be not a well-known title in Telangana. However now, KCR made me standard. He has to pay penalty for a similar,” he added.
BRS working president Ok T Rama Rao stated the way in which BJP leaders had been jubilant over the excessive courtroom judgement transferring the poaching case to the CBI clearly confirmed that the central investigation companies had been compromised within the ruling of the BJP on the Centre.
“When the accused had been caught brazenly, the BJP stated it had no reference to them and now when the case is transferred to the CBI, it’s celebrating it. Is it as a result of the case is now along with your puppet company?” he requested.