On Wednesday, the Telangana High Court stayed the police notice to three people who were detained from the Congress war room for allegedly making defamatory posts regarding chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR).
The three people were served notice of appearance before the police, under section 41 of the Criminal Procedure code (CrPc). They were detained and then released after the Congress party requested their presentation in court via the Habeas Corpus petition.
After hearing the pleadings of the three accused, Ishank Sharma, Prashant Tatineni, and Manda Sripratap, Justice K Surender issued the stay order. The judge halted any further proceedings that might occur as a result of the 41-A notices and scheduled the case for December 23 for pronouncing an order on the validity of 41-A notices.
Appearing for the defendants, counsel CV Mohan Reddy, argued that the three men were booked for no reason. The public prosecutor, on the other hand, said that the accused were given the task of defaming Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) members.
“Their task was to prepare video scoops against BRS leadership and propagate them in the name of ‘Telangana galam’. They made a defamatory scoop in the name of ‘Mayabazar’ against CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, minister KT Rama Rao and MLC K Kavitha.”
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He further claimed that the accused have been charged under Sections 505-B and 469 for creating defamatory videos by morphing pictures, among other things.
The defense counsel said, “Their names were not in the FIR which was registered a month after the receipt of the complaint.” He further sought compensation of Rs 20 lakh claiming illegal detention of the accused, according to reports.
Since they were listed as the accused in the proceedings and material evidence of the alleged offense had already been seized, the petitioners were obligated to comply by the 41-A notices.
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