Meenakshi Natarajan named as respondent in private complaint

HYDERABAD

Shocked Congress leaders of Telangana scurried to find retired the nonstop lawsuit successful which AICC in-charge of Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan, whose Rajya Sabha information papers were rejected by the Returning Office successful Madhya Pradesh connected Tuesday, was involved.

According to the papers accessed by The Hindu, it is simply a backstage petition filed by a erstwhile Congress person and ex-Municipal Corporator from Tarnaka of erstwhile Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation successful the Court of the 4th Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate astatine Hyderabad successful 2025.

The complainant was a Corporator elected connected TDP summons from 2002 to 2007, who aboriginal worked arsenic the State TDP Mahila caput and Joint Secretary from 2007-2010. She aboriginal joined the Congress party.

In her petition, she had named arsenic galore arsenic 7 Congress leaders, including Kumbham Shiva Kumar Reddy (aspirant for Narayanpet Assembly constituency ticket), Ms. Natarajan (respondent fig four), TPCC main B. Mahesh Kumar Goud (then moving president – responsive fig three), Vakati Srihari, Minister for Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development (respondent fig 5), and Chittem Parnika Reddy, Narayanpet MLA, among others, arsenic the respondents.

Perusal of the petition revealed that the complainant had filed the petition successful tribunal against Mr. Shiva Kumar Reddy. The complainant had alleged menace to her beingness from Mr. Shiva Kumar Reddy and his supporters. She named different Congress leaders connected the crushed that they were appraised of the ‘harassment’ and ‘threats’ but had failed to enactment against the said person.

Based connected the complaint, a lawsuit was filed successful the Punjagutta constabulary presumption connected May 7, 2022, and besides successful Cubbon Park constabulary presumption successful Bengaluru connected June 28, 2023. Subsequently, an FIR was registered based connected the absorption of the tribunal nether Section 223 of the BNSS connected May 28, 2025.

The petitioner had referred Ms. Natarajan’s sanction successful the petition lone once, stating that she was the AICC in-charge of Telangana. The petitioner had alleged that each the Congress leaders named successful the lawsuit were threatening her to retreat the case.

Based connected the petition, the Court of the 4th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate astatine Nampally served a announcement connected Ms. Natarajan to look earlier it connected September 17, 2025, and record a counter, if any.

Congress leaders and constabulary sources too, revealed that but for the announcement served connected her, determination were nary cases registered against the AICC in-charge of Telangana.

Interestingly enough, BJP leaders successful Telangana selectively leaked the backstage ailment petition but did not stock the FIR copies to the media. Efforts to download the FIR transcript from the authoritative website of Telangana constabulary too, proved futile.