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The National Human Rights Commission has registered a lawsuit implicit the detention and apprehension of NTV writer Donthu Ramesh by Hyderabad police, pursuing a ailment that termed the enactment an maltreatment of authorization and a usurpation of property freedom.
The ailment was filed by quality rights lawyer Rama Rao Immaneni, who said the incidental took spot connected January 14 astatine the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport connected Hyderabad outskirts. The NHRC acknowledged the ailment connected January 15 and assigned it diary fig 1079/IN/2026, confirming that the substance had been formally taken connected record.
According to the complaint, Donthu Ramesh, an input exertion with the Telugu quality transmission NTV, was taken into custody by constabulary unit successful plain clothes, including an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Guru Raghavendra, and an Assistant Sub-Inspector, Md. Aleem, without anterior announcement oregon adherence to ineligible procedure. The complainant alleged that mandatory safeguards nether Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, which necessitate anterior work of notice, were deliberately ignored.
The ailment further stated that the apprehension stemmed from a lawsuit registered based connected a ailment by elder IAS serviceman Jayesh Ranjan, pursuing the telecast of a quality point that referred to allegations against an unnamed pistillate IAS officer.
The complainant argued that Mr. Jayesh Ranjan was not personally aggrieved by the telecast and that nary pistillate serviceman had been explicitly identified successful the report.
The substance has been categorised by the NHRC nether “atrocities connected media persons”, with the constabulary listed arsenic the acrophobic authority.
Seeking the involution of the Commission, the complainant has requested an autarkic enquiry into the relation of the constabulary officers involved, compensation for the journalist, and consequential enactment against the investigating serviceman and different unit accused of carrying retired the arrest. The plea besides sought directions to forestall akin violations successful future.
