Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy of Telangana High Court on Thursday declined to permit the lunch motion moved by Delhi police seeking a direction to vacate the order not to take coercive steps against the persons accused of making and circulating a morphed video footage of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The judge, while hearing contentions of the counsel for Delhi police Srujan Reddy, noted that Delhi police can approach the lower court, take prisoner transit warrant and question them as part of further investigation into the case. A team of Delhi police arrived in Hyderabad recently after registering a criminal case of some persons doctoring a video clip and circulating it, in which the Union Minister was seen making some observations about reservations.
They had already issued notices to Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and others in the matter. Meanwhile, the Hyderabad police registered a separate case based on a complaint relating to a similar content, by BJP general secretary Premender Reddy. The sleuths of CCS arrested Manne Satish and five others and presented them before a local court. The lower court judge granted them bail.
