Justice T. Madhavi Devi of the Telangana High Court on Wednesday directed the Kagaznagar police of Kumurambheem Asifabad district to neither arrest nor take any coercive step against R.S. Puneeth, son of former IPS officer and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) State president R.S. Praveen Kumar in a criminal case registered against him.
The case was registered against Mr. Puneeth following a complaint by a driver, Aleem Khan, who alleged that Mr. Puneeth and others attacked him and took away ₹25,000 while he was campaigning for BRS MLA Koneru Konappa. Mr. Praveen Kumar and Koneru Konappa are contesting from Sirpur Kagaznagar Assembly constituency on BSP and BRS tickets respectively.
Mr. Praveen Kumar had been made the first accused in the case, but a single judge of the HC already granted a similar relief to the BSP president.