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Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s lad Bandi Sai Bageerath knocked the doors of the Telangana High Court seeking anticipatory bail successful a transgression lawsuit registered against him nether antithetic Sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The Petbasheerabad constabulary of Cyberabad Commissionerate issued an FIR (684/2026) against Bageerath connected the complaint of making intersexual advances successful an intoxicated information towards a 17-year-old miss astatine a farmhouse connected the intervening nighttime of December 31, 2025, and January 1, 2026. The ailment was lodged by the girl’s mother. Since the HC is connected summertime vacation, the transgression petition filed by him is apt to beryllium heard by the Vacation Bench connected Thursday.
Police invoked Sections 74 (assault oregon usage of transgression unit connected pistillate with the intent to outrage her modesty) and 75 (sexual harassment) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The investigators besides invoked Sections 11 (sexual harassment) work with 12 (punishment for intersexual harassment) of the POCSO Act 2012 against the 23-year-old accused Bageerath.
Mr. Bageerath contended that a charge-sheet filed against the alleged unfortunate for ‘under-aged driving’ (without driving licence) successful 2021 recorded her property arsenic 15 years and described her arsenic a ninth modular pupil then. This suggested that she was supra 18 years of property presently, the petitioner said. His counsel sent a practice to the investigators connected Monday to verify and ascertain the property of the ‘victim’ based connected the charge-sheet 304/2021 (relating to her underage driving case).
Stating that his father’s governmental opponents and “various almighty and influential persons” demanded his arrest, the petitioner apprehended imminent arrest. Contending that the Sections invoked against him were non-bailable, helium requested the HC to assistance him pre-arrest bail by invoking Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
Mr. Bageerath said that the allegations levelled against him by the victim’s parent were self-contradictory. While charging that her girl was molested and the accused made intersexual advances, the victim’s parent claimed successful the ailment that helium and her girl were successful a narration till January 7, 2026, adjacent aft the alleged offence was committed, helium stated.
‘Sections altered’
He stated successful the petition that helium had reliably learnt that astatine the behest of the victim’s parent the investigators were altering Sections of the instrumentality to beryllium much superior successful quality to guarantee helium was denied bail. He claimed that helium had nary transgression antecedents and nary transgression cases were pending against him.
