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The Telangana High Court, connected Friday, declined to assistance pre-arrest bail to Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay’s lad Sai Bageerath successful the lawsuit registered nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, portion reserving orders successful the anticipatory bail petition.
Justice T. Madhavi Devi of the HC, who heard contentions of the parties from 9 p.m. to adjacent to midnight, said that she was “not inclined to assistance immoderate interim bid astatine this stage”. The judge, who was connected the summertime Vacation Bench, said that the bid would beryllium pronounced connected May 21 (Thursday), erstwhile the Bench would resume proceeding of cases.
However, with elder counsel S. Niranjan Reddy appearing for Mr. Bageerath, requesting for passing the last bid earlier, the justice said that she would see it. The elder counsel said it was not compulsory that the bid beryllium passed lone connected May 21, erstwhile the Vacation Bench of the Judge resumes hearing. The justice said successful that case, the bid would beryllium passed astatine the earliest.
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The arguments successful the anticipatory bail petition continued for the 2nd time connected Friday. With the agelong database of antithetic petitions pending for hearing, Justice Madhavi Devi continued to perceive pleas adjacent aft 4.30 p.m. Mr. Bageerath’s petition came up for proceeding astir 9 p.m. with Mr. Niranjan Reddy citing aggregate judgments of the Supreme Court and verdicts of immoderate HCs granting bails successful POCSO cases.
The elder counsel contended that the unfortunate and his lawsuit had a cordial narration oregon relationship for a agelong clip and yet decided to portion ways. At the astir what the petitioner had done mightiness represent a lawsuit of cheating but would not autumn nether the class of assertive penetrative intersexual battle arsenic alleged successful the FIR.
Advocate Pappu Nageshwar Rao, engaged by the victim’s mother, opposing his contentions, cited verdicts of the apex tribunal rejecting anticipatory bails successful POCSO cases. “I had personally spoken with the victim. The miss had undergone trauma,” helium said and the question of granting anticipatory bail successful POCSO lawsuit would not arise.
He referred to a ailment lodged by Mr. Bageerath successful Karimnagar town, alleging that the victim’s household demanded wealth to settee the substance and the second had transferred ₹50,000 to the victim.
The accused sent wealth without immoderate crushed and the unfortunate had wrong hours returned the aforesaid to the accused, the advocator said. The Public Prosecutor for Home Palle Nageshwar Rao refuted the arguments of petitioner’s counsel that determination was an ‘improvement successful the FIR’.
The Sections were altered a time aft the FIR was issued based connected the ailment lodged by victim’s mother.
