Hyderabad: Lower than 24 hours after the Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s (BJP) Telangana chief Bandi Sanjay was arrested, the Telangana Police mentioned the MP from Karimnagar “hatched a plan” with the assistance of different accused to leak state board examination papers in a bid to defame the state authorities. An area courtroom has remanded Sanjay to 14 days in judicial custody.
Sanjay was arrested from his constituency at round 12.30am on 5 March, forward of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled go to to the state later this week.
The police have named him because the prime accused within the alleged Class 10 state board examination paper leak case. In a remand report filed Wednesday, a replica of which is with ThePrint, police mentioned the query papers had been allegedly leaked utilizing an image clicked from a cellphone.
“This can be a case of pre-planned and evil-designed prison conspiracy, malpractices in SSC public examination with an intention to create rumours and provoke breach of peace of ongoing public examination within the state,” the remand report added.
Apart from Sanjay, 9 others have been named as accused within the case together with just a few who had been taken into custody by Warangal Police Tuesday, hours after the Class 10 Hindi paper was allegedly circulated on WhatsApp inside minutes of the scholars sitting for the examination.
The police mentioned Sanjay directed the accused to use the alleged leak of the Class 10 Telugu examination paper Monday, to make sure that an identical controversy may very well be recreated the following day for the Hindi examination.
Sanjay and the opposite accused have been booked underneath IPC sections 420 (dishonest and dishonestly inducing supply of property), 505 (making assertion or publishing report or hearsay with intent to trigger, or which is more likely to trigger, worry or alarm), and 447 (punishment for prison trespass).
In response to the remand report, related sections of the Telangana Public Examination (Prevention of Malpractices) Act, 1997, have additionally been invoked towards the accused.
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‘Sanjay deleted chats, name information’
“We didn’t simply arrest Bandi Sanjay as a result of the accused forwarded a sure message. That means, messages of the Hindi paper being leaked had been additionally despatched to BJP MLA Eatala Rajender’s private assistant,” Warangal Police commissioner A.V. Ranganath instructed the media Wednesday.
He added, “We discovered the accused speaking to Bandi Sanjay over the cellphone a day earlier than the leak; we additionally discovered sure chats. We do not need Bandi Sanjay’s cellphone but, he deleted his chats and name information.”
The police may have extra readability as soon as they “retrieve Sanjay’s chats”, Ranganath mentioned, including that the state police gave intimation to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla concerning the BJP chief’s arrest.
Police mentioned that the query paper was circulated from Kamalapur zilla parishad highschool the place one of many accused allegedly climbed a tree, secured a replica of the query paper from a scholar, and took {a photograph}.
The remand report recognized the second accused as former media skilled Boora Prashant who it mentioned works with “NAMO — a frontal organisation of the BJP”. On Tuesday, Ranganath had mentioned throughout a press briefing that one of many accused, Prashant, allegedly shared the Class 10 Hindi examination paper on WhatsApp with a number of others, together with Sanjay.
“Concern is actual in BRS.! First they cease me from conducting press meet & now arrest me late in evening. My solely mistake is to Query BRS govt on its mistaken doings. Don’t cease questioning BRS even when I’m jailed. Jai Sri Ram ! Bharat Mata ki Jai ! Jai Telangana,” Sanjay tweeted previous to his arrest.
His remarks had been aimed on the BRS (Bharat Rashtra Samithi), the Chief Minister Ok. Chandrashekar Rao-led ruling social gathering in Telangana.
On Wednesday, state police additionally took the three BJP MLAs in Telangana, specifically Eatala Rajender, Raja Singh, and Raghunandan Rao into preventive custody. The legislators had been on their means, individually, to the Bommalaramaram mandal police station in Yadadri district the place Sanjay was stored for a while by the police.
In the meantime, Telangana IPS Affiliation has appealed to Telangana Meeting Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy to provoke motion towards BJP MLA Raghunandan Rao for calling state Director Normal of Police (DGP) Anjani Kumar a “Bihari goonda (goon)” in response to Sanjay’s arrest.
The actions come at a time when the state BJP is gearing up for PM Modi’s go to to Hyderabad on 8 April to flag off the Secunderabad-Tirupati Vande Bharat Specific. Throughout his go to, the Prime Minister can even carry out bhoomi pooja for improvement initiatives price Rs 11,000 crore.
‘BRS has touched uncooked nerve’
Reacting to Sanjay’s arrest, BJP nationwide common secretary B.L. Santhosh mentioned in a tweet Wednesday, “Rattled , riddled with corruption fees , dealing with electoral reverses @BRSparty & its management is a sinking boat . They’ve touched a uncooked nerve by arresting @BJP4Telangana. State President & MP @bandisanjay_bjp. This would be the final nail on their political existence.”
Sources within the state BJP instructed ThePrint that social gathering chief J.P. Nadda has suggested them to proceed on the difficulty “legally”. Sources added that Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah was additionally knowledgeable concerning the state of affairs.
BJP chief and former MP Konda Vishweshwar Reddy mentioned the social gathering will make a illustration to Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and search the imposition of President’s rule in Telangana.
In the meantime, BRS leaders insisted that Sanjay had a task within the paper leak and accused him of utilizing college students to achieve political mileage.
“They (BJP) do not need the center to combat with KCR immediately they usually’re utilizing college students for it. Papers had been leaked on Sanjay’s orders. He referred to as Prashant (one of many accused) on 3rd (a day earlier than Hindi examination) and mentioned that he needs papers to be leaked. There ought to be a PD Act (The Telangana Preventive Detention Act, 1970) case on Sanjay,” mentioned BRS MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy.
BRS whip and MLA Balka Suman even alleged a conspiracy behind the paper leak challenge, claiming that this was an try by the BJP to create a stir forward of Modi’s go to to the state.
Simply final month, paper leaks in Telangana State Public Service Fee exams got here to gentle, stirring a row within the state’s political circles. The leaks additionally prompted the Opposition to protest and accuse the federal government of inefficiency for failing to conduct exams correctly.
Bandi Sanjay and Telangana Congress chief Revanth Reddy, who had been lashing out on the authorities for the paper leaks, have additionally been served notices by a Particular Investigation Group (SIT) probing the difficulty, asking them to look for questioning in reference to statements they made within the media and on public platforms relating to the leak. The SIT has to this point made 15 arrests in reference to the case.
“BJP’s Paper leak conspiracy uncovered ……A2 (Accused 2) in TSPSC leak is shut aide of Bandi Sanjay – Accused in tenth paper viral is shut aide of Bandi Sanjay,” BRS chief and chairman of Telangana State Renewable Vitality Improvement Company Sathish Reddy alleged Wednesday.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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