The Telangana Excessive Court docket on Wednesday quashed a case registered towards Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy in 2020 for flying a drone with out permission to document visuals of a farmhouse at Janwada close to Hyderabad.
The case was registered towards Revanth Reddy in March 2020 when he was the MP from Malkajgiri. He was arrested for flying the drone over the farmhouse reportedly belonging to BRS Working President Okay.T. Rama Rao, who was then a state minister.
Revanth Reddy had employed a drone for a photograph shoot in assist of his allegation that Okay.T. Rama Rao constructed the farmhouse in violation of presidency norms.
Narsingi police of Cyberabad on March 4, 2020, registered a case towards Revanth Reddy underneath Sections 184 (obstructing sale of property supplied on the market by authority of public servant), 187 (omission to help public servant) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He was additionally booked underneath Sections 287, for utilizing a drone in an unauthorised method and Part 120, for prison conspiracy underneath the IPC.
Revanth Reddy had spent 20 days in jail earlier than a court docket granted him bail.
The Chief Minister had filed a petition within the Excessive Court docket, looking for to quash the prison circumstances registered towards him. His counsel S. Niranjan Reddy argued that Janwada is just not a prohibited space. He contended that the fees leveled didn’t represent elements of the sections of the legislation invoked within the case.
Final week, the Excessive Court docket directed the Public Prosecutor for Residence to file a counter affidavit within the petition.
In the meantime, the Excessive Court docket has additionally quashed a case registered towards BRS chief Rama Rao for making alleged derogatory remarks towards Chief Minister Revanth Reddy.
Saifabad police of Hyderabad had registered a case in August final 12 months on a criticism by Rajya Sabha MP Anil Kumar Yadav that the BRS chief used derogatory language towards the Chief Minister.
KTR, because the BRS chief is popularly recognized, had approached the Excessive Court docket, looking for to quash the case.
In the course of the arguments, the Public Prosecutor submitted to the court docket that KTR, who’s holding a accountable place, used derogatory language towards the Chief Minister.
Nevertheless, KTR’s counsel T. V. Ramanarao argued that the allegations had been false and politically motivated. He urged the court docket to quash the FIR.
After listening to arguments from either side, the court docket quashed the FIR.
