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Taking a superior enactment of the alleged engagement of IPS serviceman M. Sunil Kumar Naik successful the custodial torture of erstwhile MP and existent Deputy Speaker K. Raghu Ramakrishna Raju, the Andhra Pradesh High Court (HC) connected Thursday observed that attacking a Member of Parliament (MP) was not antithetic from attacking the Parliament itself. The High Court opined that it would beryllium bully for the IPS offier to surrender.
Hearing the anticipatory bail plea filed by Mr. Naik, who was past Deputy Inspector General of CID, Justice Y. Lakshman Rao said the bail could not beryllium a shield for a idiosyncratic against whom terrible allegations were levelled and wondered however an IPS serviceman could indulge successful custodial torture of an MP.
He stated that Mr. Naik should person been vigilant and restrained himself from acting successful the mode helium did, and asserted that helium (the IPS officer) appeared to person a nonstop oregon indirect relation successful the incident.
Justice Lakshman Rao repeatedly questioned erstwhile Mr. Naik would springiness himself up and reiterated that the substance was grim and hence could not beryllium taken lightly.
The lawsuit was posted connected June 19 for further submissions by the petitioner’s counsel. Mr. Ramakrishna Raju was YSR Congress Party MP from Narsapuram betwixt 2019 and 2024, during which charges were framed against him nether assorted sections of the Indian Penal Code.
