3 sent to judicial custody for ‘trying to poach TRS MLAs’

Three individuals who allegedly tried to ‘poach’ 4 Telangana Rashtra Samiti legislators have been arrested and an area court docket in Hyderabad has remanded them to judicial custody.

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The arrests had been made on Saturday night time after the Telangana excessive court docket had put aside a decrease court docket’s order and directed the accused within the case to give up earlier than police.

Earlier, an area court docket in Hyderabad on October 27 rejected the remand of three folks, who had been arrested by the Cyberabad police on the cost of making an attempt to coax 4 TRS legislators into defecting, over not following the process of issuing a discover earlier than the arrest.

The federal government appealed to the Excessive Court docket towards the decrease court docket’s order.

Following the TRS’ allegations that the Bharatiya Janata Occasion tried to poach a few of its MLAs, the saffron occasion filed a writ petition within the excessive court docket in search of a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe.

One other choose of the excessive court docket, on the petition by the BJP, posted the matter for November 4 and deferred investigation until then.

Primarily based on a grievance by Pilot Rohith Reddy, one of many legislators, circumstances underneath related sections — legal conspiracy, providing bribe and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — had been filed towards the trio — Ramachandra Bharati alias Satish Sharma, Nanda Kumar and Simhayaji Swamy — on the night time of October 26.

As per the primary data report (FIR) copy, Rohith Reddy alleged that the accused provided him Rs 100 crore and in return the legislator needed to depart the TRS and contest as a BJP candidate within the subsequent meeting elections.

The incident led to a confrontation between the BJP and the TRS with allegations and counter allegations.