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The Telangana High Court volition walk orders connected Friday (May 15, 2026) connected the pre-arrest bail petition filed by the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay’s lad Sai Bageerath successful the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act lawsuit registered against him.
Besides, Justice T. Madhavi Devi of the High Court, aft proceeding contentions of counsels of the authorities and the petitioner connected Thursday (May 14, 2026), posted aft 1 week the proceeding of transgression petition filed by Bageerath seeking anticipatory bail. The abrogation tribunal justice heard arguments of the elder counsel S. Niranjan Reddy who claimed that pre-arrest bail was not barred successful POCSO cases.
He said his lawsuit was acceptable to cooperate with the investigators and acceptable to contiguous evidences to beryllium determination were suspicions astir the property of the ‘minor victim’ since her property was described arsenic 15 years successful a charge-sheet of under-age driving lawsuit involving her. When the justice sought to cognize however the petitioner was antithetic and wherefore helium should beryllium granted interim protection, the elder counsel said his lawsuit would beryllium denied justness if it was proved subsequently that the unfortunate was not minor.
The Public Prosecutor for Home Palle Nageshwar Rao, referring to the altering of sections of instrumentality successful the case, maintained that the ailment was received from the victim’s parent precocious connected nighttime of May 8. The sections of instrumentality were altered lone aft the investigators spoke with the unfortunate successful item and recorded her statement.
Initially, the Petbasheerabad constabulary of Cyberabad Commissionerate invoked conception 11 (sexual harassment) work with 12 (punishment for intersexual harassment) of the POCSO Act against the accused. However, 4 days aboriginal the conception of instrumentality was altered to 5 (l) work with 6 of the aforesaid Act.
