Hyderabad police investigating the minor’s gang-rape in Jubilee Hills registered a criminal case against BJP MLA M. Raghunandan Rao on Tuesday over the legislator releasing some pictures and a video clip connected to the crime.
The Abids police of Hyderabad commissionerate booked the case invoking section 228A of the Indian Penal Code against the legislator after an advocate Komiredd Karam lodged a complaint the previous day. Mr. Karam said in his complaint that the pictures and the video clip revealed identity of the victim which was in gross violation of the directions of the Supreme Court.
“The action of the MLA also amounts to character assassination of the victim,” he said. Releasing the pictures and the video clip would have caused ‘colossal distress’ to the victim, he said adding that it also amounted to interference in the administration of justice.
