Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Thursday directed the Telangana state police to clarify whether candidates for the Assembly elections had to disclose all the pending cases in the affidavit while filing their nomination papers or only the cases which are in their notice.
Justice A.V. Sesha Sai was dealing with a petition by state Congress working president A. Revanth Reddy seeking a direction to the DGP to furnish the list of case registered against him in various police stations across the state. He told the court that several cases were booked against him for raising his voice against the ruling party.
Mr T. Rajanikanth Reddy, counsel for the petitioner, submitted that they had applied to the DGP on March 14 under the Right to Information Act to furnish the list of cases booked against the petitioner. They had also submitted a representation to the DGP on September 12, but till date he had not furnished the information.
He told the court that the petitioner had to disclose the list of the cases pending against him while filing the nomination papers to contest in the coming elections.
Mr. S. Sharath Kumar, special counsel of the government, said the candidates had to disclose cases which are in their notice. The judge then asked counsel to place the rule position by next week.
