A High Court judge will supervise the investigation and the SIT will have to submit the progress of the investigation
Hyderabad:
The Telangana High Court on Tuesday said that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up to probe the poaching case of TRS MLAs will continue with the probe.
Disposing of the BJP’s petition seeking a CBI probe into the entire episode, a division bench of Chief Justice Ujjwal Bhuiyan and Justice CV Bhaskar Reddy said there would be no selective leakage of the material collected during the probe or the investigation.
The bench further said that it is the responsibility of the head of the SIT CV Anand (Hyderabad Police Commissioner) to ensure that it is strictly followed.
The TRS government had on November 9 ordered the formation of a seven-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case related to the alleged horse-trading of ruling party MLAs.
The poaching case was registered on the basis of a complaint by Pilot Rohit Reddy, one of the three MLAs. On 26 October, relevant sections of the IPC and the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 were invoked against Ramchandra Bharti alias Satish Sharma, Nanda Kumar and Simhayaji Swamy.
According to a copy of the FIR, Rohit Reddy alleged that the accused offered him Rs 100 crore and in return the MLA had to leave the TRS and contest the next assembly election as a BJP candidate.
The SIT members include Rema Rajeshwari-SP Nalgonda, Kalmeshwar Shingenavar-DCP Crime, Cyberabad and R Jagadishwar Reddy-DCP, Shamshabad.
The bench said that the High Court judges will monitor the investigation and the SIT will have to submit the progress of the investigation to them from time to time in a sealed cover.
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