Justice G. Radha Rani of Telangana High Court on March 21 dismissed the criminal revision case filed by arrested police officer Dugyala Praneeth Kumar, challenging the lower court order connected to his arrest.
The arguments in the petition filed by Praneeth Kumar, also known as Praneeth Rao, who is facing multiple charges including criminal breach of trust, were concluded the previous day. Praneeth Kumar was accused of operating clandestinely from the office of the Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) constituted to gather information about Left Wing Extremist operatives, at Begumpet in Hyderabad.
The Punjagutta police registered a criminal case against him following a complaint lodged by his superior officer Ramesh, an officer of Additional Superintendent of Police with the SIB, stating that Praneeth “developed profiles of unidentified persons and tracked them using 17 computers with dedicated Internet lines”. By then, Praneeth was shifted to Siricialla district, 140 km from Hyderabad, as part of general transfers affected across the State.
