Telangana BJP president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar being detained by the police from his residence after midnight in Karimnagar on Wednesday.
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Amid excessive rigidity, BJP State president and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay was arrested by the police on Wednesday in reference to the case referring to circulation of the SSC Hindi examination query paper on WhatsApp, registered at Kamalapur police station in Hanamkonda district on Tuesday.
The Kamalapur police named Mr. Sanjay as the primary accused in the FIR and arrested him on costs of prison conspiracy, malpractices in SSC public exams with an intention to unfold rumours, disrupt the peaceable conduct of the continued SSC exams and defame the duly elected State authorities.
B. Prashanth, 33, a former reporter of a Telugu tv information channel; G Mahesh, 37, a lab assistant; M Shiva Ganesh, 19; and a minor boy are among the many whole 10 accused named in the FIR.
Acting on a criticism filed by M. Shiva Prasad, Headmaster of ZPHS (Boys), Kamalapur, the police on Tuesday registered a case underneath IPC Sections 120 (B), 420, 447 and 505 (1) (b), and in addition Section 4(a), 6r/w 8 of T.S. Public Examination (Prevention of malpractices) Act, 1997, Section 66-D of IT Act.
The Kamalapur police have arrested 4 accused together with the minor boy on Tuesday night. Based on their confession and knowledge analysis of the cellphone calls and WhatsAPP chats, the primary accused was arrested at Pembarthi arch on the Hanamkonda-Hyderabad stretch of the NH-163 at 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday, the police mentioned in the remand case diary.
Mr. Sanjay was taken into preventive custody by the Karimnagar Two Town police from his home in Karimnagar in crime quantity 147/2023 underneath Section 151 of Cr.P.C. in the wee hours of Wednesday. Amid excessive drama, Mr Sanjay was picked up from his home after Tuesday midnight and shifted to Bommalaramaram police station in Yadadri Bhongir district. His arrest sparked widespread protests from the BJP cadres at Gajularamaram and varied different components of the State.
The BJP employees took to the streets in a number of components of Karimnagar, Jagtial, Hanamkonda, Khammam, and Bhadradri Kothagudem districts condemning the arrest and terming it as an “act of political vendetta.”
Several BJP leaders together with Dubbak MLA M. Raghunandan Rao had been dispersed through the protest exterior the Bommalaramaram police station on Wednesday morning.
In the remand case diary, the police charged the second and third accused Prashanth and Mahesh with sending the minor boy to the examination centre in Kamalapur on the behest of the primary accused. The minor boy trespassed into the examination centre, scaled the compound wall and clicked a picture of the Hindi query paper from one pupil in one of many rooms in the primary ground at 9.45 a.m., the police mentioned, alleging that the image of the query paper was then forwarded to SSC 2019-2020 WhatsApp teams and subsequently circulated on different teams.
The police additional charged the second accused with posting it as a “breaking news” on varied social media platforms and forwarding it to Mr Sanjay and in addition to the PA of Huzurabad MLA E Rajender at round 11.24 a.m.
Meanwhile, Mr. Sanjay was produced earlier than the decide of a neighborhood court docket at his residence in Hanamkonda on Wednesday night. The Judge remanded him in judicial custody till April 19.
