Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed the state CID to submit the case diary vis-à-vis the police action against Telugu Desam leader Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu and his two sons --Vijay and Rajesh -- and posted the case for next hearing on Friday.
The single judge bench of Justice Raghunandan Rao heard the petition here on Thursday and asked the CID how IPC section 467 was relevant in the forgery of a No Objection Certificate. It also asked the police what was the justification for the arrests in this connection.
The CID booked a case on Wednesday on the TD leader and his two sons based on a complaint from water resources official Mallikarjuna Rao, which said a forged official NOC was used for construction of a house at Narsipatnam. They arrested persons moved the HC for bail on Thursday.
Petitioners’ counsel VV Satish argued that the accused had taken the NOC from the water resources authorities in 2019, in advance, to avoid any trouble for construction works in future.
“The NOC filed in the court in another case was used by the CID to file a false case,” he said and argued that when the case was under the consideration of the court, the CID was not supposed to intervene in it.
He said the petitioners filed the NOC and its attested copy in the HC in June, 2022 and wondered as to why the water resources official was claiming that he was “forced to attest the NOC in July, 2022.”
Counsel also argued that the CID booked the case with a view to troubling the TD leader and his family out of political reasons. BY arresting them late in the night, the CID violated their human rights. IPC section 467 is not relevant to the case,” he said and stressed that they were eligible to get bail.
Additional advocate general Sudhakar Reddy representing the CID argued that the petitioners derived undue benefit by using the NOC. AS the case was in its primary stage of inquiry, the accused would be produced before the lower court, he said, and asked them to seek bail in the lower court.
