Telangana High Court PP asked to give info on BJP leader’s pvt plaint against CM

HYDERABAD: The vacation bench of the Telangana High Court has asked the state public prosecutor of Telangana to inform the instruction forwarded to him on the private complaint filed by BJP state general secretary before the magistrate court against Chief Minister Revanth Reddy for making derogatory remarks against the BJP.

On Thursday midnight 1pm, Justice Vijaysen Reddy took up the hearing of the criminal petition filed by the BJP leader Kasam Venkateshwarlu, seeking a direction to the special JFCM for excise cases at Hyderabad to enquire into the private complaint made by him on May 14 against Revanth Reddy for making alleged false, defamatory and provocative speech on May 4.

Justice Vijaysen Reddy directed the public prosecutor to get instructions on the process adopted in the lower Courts while adjudicating the "private complaints''. In this case, the Special JFCM for excise cases in Hyderabad adjourned the private complaint made by the petitioner, which is under a challenge before the High Court.

Justice Vijaysen Reddy asked the counsel for the petitioner Hamsa Devineni as to what was the urgency in this case, which made her to wait till past midnight. As it was a mere private complaint case, the public prosecutor was asked to get instructions on this issue and adjourned the criminal petition to June 24. Palle Nageshwar Rao, public prosecutor in the first instance, informed the judge that this petition is not a fit case to be heard as a "lunch motion petition" and there was no urgency in hearing the petition in vacation court bench, that too at midnight.