Telangana: HC Quashes Drone Case In opposition to CM Revanth Reddy | India Information

The Telangana Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday quashed a case registered in opposition to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy in 2020 for flying a drone with out permission to report visuals of a farmhouse at Janwada close to Hyderabad. 

The case was registered in opposition to 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 in opposition to 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 felony 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 Courtroom, in search of to quash the felony instances registered in opposition to him. His counsel S. Niranjan Reddy argued that Janwada will not be a prohibited space. He contended that the fees leveled didn’t represent components of the sections of the legislation invoked within the case.

Final week, the Excessive Courtroom directed the Public Prosecutor for Dwelling to file a counter affidavit within the petition.

In the meantime, the Excessive Courtroom has additionally quashed a case registered in opposition to BRS chief Rama Rao for making alleged derogatory remarks in opposition to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy.

Saifabad police of Hyderabad had registered a case in August final yr on a grievance by Rajya Sabha MP Anil Kumar Yadav that the BRS chief used derogatory language in opposition to the Chief Minister.

KTR, because the BRS chief is popularly recognized, had approached the Excessive Courtroom, in search of to quash the case.

Throughout the arguments, the Public Prosecutor submitted to the court docket that KTR, who’s holding a accountable place, used derogatory language in opposition to 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.