By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, Aug. 13: The first additional chief metropolitan magistrate, Mr Ismail, while taking cognisance of a private petition filed by Mr Sri Ranga Rao, of Telangana Advocates Joint Action Committee, directed the police to register cases against all the 16 ministers, conduct an investigation and submit a report.
Accordingly Saifabad police registered a case under Section 499, 500 (criminal defamation) and 153 (A) of IPC (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, etc) against the ministers Mr. Gade Venkat Reddy, Mr. Dharmana Prasad Rao, Mr. Kanna Lakshimi Narayana, Mr. Vatti Vasantha Kumar, Mr. Pitani Satyananarayana, Mr. Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, Mr. P. Vishwaroop, Mr.M Venkat Ramana Rao, Mr, D Manikya Varaprasad, Mr. Balaraju, Mr. Ahamadullah, Mr Anam Ramanarayana Reddy Mr. P Subhash Chandra Bose, Mr.Ramachnadra Reddy, Mr. Partha Sarathi and Ms Galla Aruna Kumari.
This is first time that a criminal court has asked for cases against so many ministers, almost half the Cabinet, on the basis of a private complaint. Section 200 of the Criminal Procedure Code allows persons to file private complaints against any public servant and the magistrate concerned can take cognisance of the complaint and direct the police to probe.
Mr Ranga Rao said in his petition that the 16 ministers submitted a representation to the Justice Sri Krishna Panel stating that “in any case the Centre should be careful not to give evidence to demands like self rule and self respect as it will be certainly sowing seeds for disintegration of the country.”
The ministers said “it was surprising the Centre has set up a panel to look into this anti national demand”.
Meanwhile, the endowments minister, Mr G. Venkata Reddy, who led the delegation of ministers denied having called Telangana protagonists as anti-nationals.
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