The Telangana government requested suspension of the single judge’s order to transfer the investigation into the MLAs poaching matter to the Central Bureau of Investigation, but the Telangana High Court on Wednesday rejected to hear the interim motion (CBI).
On Wednesday, the Telangana administration filed an interim appeal asking the Telangana High Court to suspend the decision of the single judge directing the Central Bureau of Inquiry to conduct the investigation into the MLAs poaching matter (CBI).
On December 26, 2022, the state administration requested a three-week suspension of the ruling so that it may appeal to the Supreme Court.
It was made plain by Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan that the ruling could only be challenged in the Supreme Court and that as the subject had already been heard and decided by the division bench, the court could not take it up again.
The Chief Justice was informed by Attorney General B. S. Prasad that the CBI is pressuring for the case file. He said that on Tuesday, the CBI sent the Chief Secretary another letter requesting the case file.
The Advocate General requested permission from the Chief Justice a day after Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy suggested it at the interim petition hearing on Tuesday.
Vijaysen Reddy had issued his decision to transfer the matter to the CBI on December 26. Additionally, he had annulled the Government Order (GO) that had created the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to look into the alleged attempt to kidnap four Bharat Rashtra Samithi lawmakers (BRS).
The accused priest Ramchandra Bharati, the pontiff Simhayaji, and the restaurant owner Nandu Kumar had petitioned the single court, claiming they had no confidence in the SIT probe.
The judge had also mentioned that the media shouldn’t have had access to the information from the probe. He also pointed out that the state hasn’t offered an answer to the query of who gave the Chief Minister the documents for his investigation.
On February 6, a division bench made up of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice N Tukaramji rejected the state government’s plea contesting the single judge’s judgment transferring the matter to the CBI.
The single judge bench’s order, according to the division bench, cannot be criticized or tampered with.
On the evening of October 26, 2022, the three accused were apprehended by Cyberabad police at a farmhouse in Moinabad, close to Hyderabad, where they were reportedly luring four BRS MLAs with promises of enormous sums of money.
On the basis of a tip from one of the MLAs, Pilot Rohit Reddy, Cyberabad police carried out the operation. In order to get him to “defect to BJP,” he said that the accused promised him Rs 100 crore and each of the other three individuals Rs 50 crore.
After that, a SIT led by Hyderabad police commissioner C. V. Anand was established by the state government to look into the issue.
