Hyderabad: A Nampally court has rejected the anticipatory bail petition of Congress leader Konda Vishweshwar Reddy on Thursday.
Mr Reddy had moved the court for bail in connection with a case filed at the Banjara Hills police station where he was accused of detaining police officers.
Mr Reddy, who joined the Congress from the TRS last year, is accused of allegedly manhandling the policemen when they went to serve notices on him in a case of seizure of Rs 10 lakh cash from his associate Konda Sandeep Reddy. at Gachibowli, two days before the Lok Sabha elections in the state.
On April 9, the Cyberabad police had caught Sandeep Reddy, an advocate, with the money near SLN Terminus Mall. The police also seized some paper slips in which information about expenditure for campaigning and liquor distribution were allegedly written besides some information in code.
In that connection, a sub-inspector and a constable working at the Cyberabad police commissionerate had gone to Mr Reddy’s office at Road No 12, Banjara Hills, where they were illegally confined and manhandled.
