Congress police action meets the High Court
Several BRS leaders and aides faced cases or notices after Assembly protests. Courts have since slowed parts of the machinery down.
Police cases and notices have met judicial scrutiny in Telangana courts.
The Congress government’s police action against BRS leaders and aides has acquired an inconvenient feature: courts are now examining it.
After the September 7 Assembly-gate confrontation, police registered cases against K.T. Rama Rao, T. Harish Rao, D. Sudheer Reddy and others over alleged unruly conduct. A separate complaint by a woman constable alleged criminal force, intimidation and obstruction of women police personnel. These remain allegations, not court findings. The BRS leaders had been stopped while protesting in black T-shirts against the Congress government.
The sequence continued with notices and detentions. Bolarum police took KTR’s PRO Mahesh Manikya Mudiraj from Saifabad police station in connection with another case, then released him after issuing a notice under Section 35(3) of the BNSS. The provision requires appearance where arrest is not considered necessary at that stage.
The Telangana High Court later directed police not to arrest BRS social-media convenor Manne Krishank and ordered the Section 35(3) procedure. The Nampally court also rejected police remand for BRS MLCs Tatha Madhu and Naveen Kumar Reddy and granted them bail.
The BRS alleges political targeting. The available record proves a pattern of cases, notices and court intervention; it does not by itself prove political motive. The Congress government has not publicly answered the broader charge in the material reviewed. Its police machinery, meanwhile, is discovering that procedure is not decorative.