Anticipating his re-arrest prior to Sri Ram Navami festival on April 1, TDP corporator T Raja Singh has approached the high court urging it to declare the police action against him in the vehicle theft case as illegal.
Sources said Raja Singh had filed a writ of mandamus in court making the principal secretary (home), DGP, city police commissioner, deputy commissioner of West Zone police and station house officer, Mangalhat police station, respondents. In his petition he said that he was the main organizer of the Sri Ram Navami rally and alleged that the police, under pressure from a political party, had implicated him in a false case.
Raja Singh also alleged that the police were pressurizing him not to participate in the rally. He urged the court to pass orders declaring the action of the respondents in trying to implicate him in a false criminal case as illegal. “I apprehend my arrest anytime on the ground that I should not participate in the festival.” The matter is expected to come up for hearing soon.
–Agencies