Hyderabad: The Charminar police late on Wednesday night picked up an advocate and three others for writing a letter to Andhra Pradesh HC Chief Justice Nisar Ahmed Kakru, threatening to physically harm him if he tried to block the agitation by lawyers fighting for the cause of a separate state. Justice Kakru fresh from Jammu & Kashmir HC had expressed displeasure over the boycott and disrution of court proceedings by lawyers seeking Telangana. Highly placed sources identified the advocate as B Jagan Mohan Naidu, a notary practising at the Ranga Reddy (RR) district courts in Kothapet.Of the remaining three persons detained,Sudhakar and Vishwanath are two brothers working as typists operating from a mobile van at the RR courts while the third is yet to be identified. Incidentally, Naidu did not try to disguise his letter he signed it off with his name. But now he has claimed before the police that although the signatures were his,he had no knowledge about the contents.The threat letter was received by the CJs office last weekend and police sources indicated that the four picked up would be charged on Friday. The High Court is located in the jurisdiction of the Charminar police station.Advocates at the RR courts told TOI that Jagan Mohan was active in organising Telangana protests.Sources said that Naidu told the sleuths of the commissioners task force who had picked him up that he was innocent.I had signed and given some blank stamp papers to typists who work outside the RR court.I did not write the letter, he claimed.
His wife Vijaya Kumari, who works as a stenographer with a judge at the City Civil court, also said that he was innocent and that he had never resorted to such type of acts till date. Jagan Mohan is a resident of RK Residency in Saleem Nagar Colony Malakpet.
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Threat letter to chief justice condemned
Hyderabad: Bar Council of India member and convener of Telangana Lawyers Joint Action Committee M Rajender Reddy condemned the threat to the AP High Court Chief Justice and said that no Telangana lawyer would do such a thing because there is no culture of violence in the region. P Sreenath, bar association president of Ranga Reddy courts, said that father of typists Sudhakar and Vishwanath, who were detained by police, had sought help from him for his sons, implying that they had been picked up in connection with the threat letter. The detention took place after the CJs secretariat lodged a formal complaint with the city police on Wednesday.Following that,the Charminar police registered a case under (whoever sells or offers for sale any printed or engraved substance containing defamatory matter). It is learnt that the police would send the suspect advocate to remand in a day or two.
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Nizam kin files case against OU vice chancellor
Himayath Ali Mirza, son of Fatima Fouzia and great grandson of the last Nizam, Osman Ali Khan, on Wednesday, filed a criminal case against the vice-chancellor of Osmania University (OU), T Tirupati Rao, under Section 156(3) of Criminal Procedure Code (which allows police officers to investigate cognizable offences committed beyond their local jurisdiction). The complaint, filed in the court of the principal special judge, accuses Rao of granting permission to MJ College of Engg. and Technology to function illegally, for 30 years, without any land documents a per-requisite as per All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) norms. The complaint alleges that Rao deliberately ignored the recomm-endations of a committee, formed to look into the M J College case,which submitted that permanent affiliation to the college should not be renewed.The vice-chancellor ignored this report and even removed these committee members to appoint new people who passed a decision in favour of the college, Himayath Mirza alleges in the complaint.
Apart from Rao,the complaint also names members of the Sultan ul-Uloom Education Society (SUES), that runs the college,for allegedly bribing OU officials to illegally grant them affiliation. The court, on Thursday,referred the matter to the special police establishment and Anti-Corruption Bureau, for further action.
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(source-toi)
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