Women Accuses Police Of Taking Away Cash, Gold; HC Orders Notice

Justice K. Lakshman of the Telangana High Court on Thursday ordered notice in a writ petition complaining of illegal seizure of money and gold by regimental bazaar police. The judge was hearing a writ plea filed by B. Nisha. She complained that when there was a fire accident in her house on May 15 and she and her husband were away, fire department personnel extinguished the fire but the police seized without the authority of law cash and gold amounting to Rs 1.64 crore. She also explained that the existence of liquid cash at their residence was required for the business of her husband who deals in transformers. Counsel for the petitioner, Ankita Agarwal, complained that the police had kept her and her family members away from the house.

Stay away from petitioner’s land, Medchal cops told

Justice K. Lakshman of the Telangana High Court directed Medchal Malkajgiri district police not to interfere with the petitioner’s land but they were free to proceed with the investigation for a crime registered against him. The judge made the interim order filed by Banavath Kishan Nayak. It was the case of the petitioner that the police at the instance of one Narne Estates Pvt Ltd in a high-handed manner instructed the petitioner not to enter his own agricultural land. The police said that they were only investigating and complaint registered against Narne Estates Pvt Ltd.

Police asked not to interfere in a civil dispute

The judge in yet another writ petition directed the police not to interfere in a civil dispute. The petitioners sought a command order or writ, more particularly one in the nature of mandamus considering exceeding jurisdiction by the station house officer of Neredmet police station. The petition said that the SHO directing the petitioners to give or surrender their possession in favour of Godha Varthi SubbaRao and Godavari Hari Prasad Raju in correlation of residential plot bearing No.163 in Survey No 278, admeasuring 416 square yards encircled with compound wall at Parvathi Nagar in Neredmet under Malkajgiri circle. The petitioners complained that they are the owners but the police are forcing them to hand over the same to certain other private parties.