The hearing in the MLA poaching case was concluded by the Telangana High Court on Monday.
Resuming the hearing instantaneously after the Sankranti vacation, the division bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N Tukaramji heard arguments from Supreme Court advocate and senior counsel Dushyant Dave on behalf of the State government on its appeal challenging the transfer of the poaching case investigation to the CBI.
Dave reiterated his arguments about how the single judge arrived at the conclusion that the investigation was suspicious without there being any substantial evidence, and how the investigation cannot be transferred to CBI cases except in the rarest of rare cases. He contended that the single judge cannot consider the revealing of a public document by the Chief Minister as leakage by the investigating agency.
The State submitted that there was no error on the part of the investigating agency, and none of the SIT’s actions were suspicious.
Dave questioned how the single judge could quash the SIT investigation without any challenge to the FIR filed by the Moinabad police, whether by the three accused or the BJP. He called the single judge order a bundle of contradictions and sought to set it aside.
Dave also claimed that BJP national general secretary BL Santhosh threatened the SIT and officers on the probe team after a single judge ordered the probe to be transferred to the CBI. Santosh, who had sought immunity from arrest before the court, was now degrading the very authority of the court, Dave said.
Following a lengthy hearing, the court ordered the State government to submit written arguments by January 30. Dave asked the court to keep its final order in abeyance for 15 days irrespective of the verdict in favour or against the government.
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