An ‘attempt to murder’ case was filed against former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy and two India Police Service (IPS) officers by K Raghurama Krishna Raju, an MLA of the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
In an FIR registered at Nagarampalem in Guntur against Jagan Mohan and two IPS officers, the TDP MLA accused the former AP CM of “plotting” a criminal “conspiracy” against him.
Krishna Raju alleged in the FIR that CB-CID officers arrested him from Hyderabad on 14 May 2021 and taken to Guntur without being produced before a court. The TDP MLA also stated that he was beaten by the two officers at the behest of then AP CM Jagan Mohan.
“A false case was filed against me by the CB-CID of the Andhra Pradesh government. On May 14, 2021, I was arrested without due process, I was bullied, unlawfully physically pulled inside the police vehicle, and forcibly taken to Guntur the same night,” Krishna Raju alleged in the police complaint.
The two IPS officers named in the alleged attempt to murder conspiracy are PV Sunil Kumar and PSR Sitaramanjaneyulu. Two more accused are retired police officer R Vijay Paul and former Guntur Government General Hospital superintendent G Prabhavat.
“Raju sent his police complaint through mail one month ago and after taking legal opinion, I registered a case at 7 pm on Thursday against the former chief minister and others,” a police officer was quoted by PTI as saying.
The TDP MLA also claimed that he was subjected to “custodial torture”.
Krishna Raju said he was threatened for life for “criticising the chief minister (Jagan).”
“I was arrested without due process, including the absence of a medical examination or adherence to proper legal procedures… I was kept in the CB-CID office, Guntur from 9:30 pm onwards (May 14, 2021). I was not given my medicine despite having had an open heart bypass surgery,” said Raju.
The TDP MLA further Raju alleged that when the magistrate sent him to Guntur Government General Hospital, the then superintendent of the hospital, Prabhavathi, colluded with Sunil Kumar to create false medical reports that no injuries were inflicted on his person.
“Due to police brutality, I was shifted from Guntur to Secunderabad Army Hospital by the orders of the Supreme Court and thereafter I was granted bail by the Supreme Court,” Raju added.
All the five accused in the case were charged under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) since the allegations stem from a case that happened three years ago.
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