Within hours of the dismissal of MP’s motion for bail from Narasapuram K. Raghu Ramakrishna Raju, the Andhra Pradesh Supreme Court set up a special department bank composed of Judges C. Praveen Kumar and K. Lalitha Kumari by creating a The MP’s letter was about lawyer B. Adinarayana complaining that the MP was ill-treated while in CID detention Habeas corpus Petition.
Taking note of the letter in which Mr Adinarayana Rao requested the establishment of a bank department, citing lack of time to file a formal petition for maintaining the single judge’s order, and requested that his complaint that the MP was beaten despite everything be considered Due to his poor health, the court referred his claim to the medical board of the government hospital in Guntur and ordered a report to be submitted by Sunday morning (May 16).
In CID custody
In the meantime, the VI. Additional junior civil judge in Guntur, before whom the MP was produced after Judge K. Suresh Reddy of the High Court put down his bail motion, the CID suspended custody for 14 days.
In the morning, Justice Suresh Reddy denied the MP’s request for bail, saying he was free to appeal to the trial court, although Mr Adinarayana Rao insisted that the bail request was in view of the right to protection of life and guaranteed personal freedom should be allowed in accordance with Article 21 of the Constitution and the urgency of the MP’s state of health.
After his bail request was denied, Mr. Raju was produced under tight security in the Sixth Additional Junior Civil Judge Court in Guntur. When the court learned that the MP was in custody, it ordered a medical committee to be set up and a report to be rightfully submitted.
The MP’s advocates asked for permission to go to Ramesh Hospital for treatment.
Earlier, CID police questioned Mr. Raju about the intentions behind his hate speech, which was broadcast on selected media outlets, and the possible assistance he was given in broadcasting those speeches.
Additional DG (CID) PV Sunil Kumar interviewed Mr Raju for over two hours on Friday evening, trying to get important information about the MP’s speeches. The police are believed to have confiscated some vital electronic evidence.
On Friday, the MP was arrested from his home in Hyderabad and taken to the CID office in Guntur. The CID Police have named Mr. Raju and TV5 and ABN Channels as defendants in the case registered under Sections 124-A, 153 (A) and 505 with 120 (B) of the Indian Criminal Code.
In the FIR, the CID said an investigation of Mr. Raju’s hate speech in various media and social media channels showed that Mr. Raju did not limit himself to fair criticism of the government, but made every attempt to generate hatred and contempt Dissatisfaction with the government, through words and also through visual gestures of face and hands to provoke his followers to take up violence. The speeches were therefore of a seditious nature, claimed the CID.
The FIR also said that Mr. Raju was targeting communities and trying to incite hatred against them by attempting to show that the government favored two particular communities.