Ultimate Court docket orders scientific exam of rise up YSRCP MP at Military Health facility in Secunderabad
The Ultimate Court docket on Monday directed that rise up YSRCP MP Kanumuri Raghurama Krishnam Raju, who used to be arrested closing week by way of Andhra Pradesh CID on sedition fees and allegedly assaulted in custody, be medically tested on the Military Health facility in Secunderabad, Telangana, and admitted there for hospital therapy.
A holiday bench of Justices Vineet Saran and B R Gavai additionally directed that the scientific exam be performed by way of a “scientific board of 3 docs of the clinic to be constituted by way of the top of the Military Health facility… within the presence of a judicial officer, who could also be nominated by way of the Leader Justice of the Telangana Top Court docket”.
Court cases of the scientific exam, the bench stated, can be videographed and submitted to the Registrar Common of the Telangana Top Court docket in a sealed quilt to be handed directly to the Ultimate Court docket.
Showing for the state govt, Senior Suggest Dushyant Dave stated Raju be despatched to the Military Health facility just for scientific exam and now not for remedy or hospitalisation. However the court docket rejected this and directed that the MP “can be admitted within the Military Health facility and saved there for hospital therapy till additional orders, which can be handled as judicial custody of the petitioner….”. It stated bills, if any, for hospitalisation can be borne by way of Raju.
The court docket requested the Andhra Pradesh Leader Secretary “to hold out this order forthwith and make sure that… Raju is taken to and reaches the Military Health facility, Secunderabad, Telangana lately itself”.
The MP from Narasapuram had approached the Ultimate Court docket, difficult the Would possibly 15 Andhra Pradesh Top Court docket order asking him to way the periods court docket for bail.
In his enchantment in opposition to the order rejecting his bail plea, Raju, a critic of Andhra Pradesh Leader Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, stated the state govt had requested the DIG of Police, CID, Amaravathi, to behavior an inquiry into his “movements in addressing the print and digital media accusing failure of the Leader Minister and his govt in coping with Covid-related problems”. He stated he used to be arrested at the foundation of the DIG’s file, which stated he used to be “indulging in hate speeches in opposition to positive communities and selling disaffection in opposition to the federal government…”.
The MP claimed the case in opposition to him used to be borne out of “political vendetta” as he have been essential of the federal government.
Showing for the MP, Senior Suggest Mukul Rohatgi submitted that the subject used to be of “extradordinary share”. Raju, he stated, is a sitting MP of the ruling party within the state and “he has been essential of the party for a while now”. Remaining yr, he needed to transfer the Delhi Top Court docket for added safety because of threats from party individuals, he added. Rohatgi additionally stated the Justice of the Peace earlier than whom Raju used to be offered had recorded that there have been accidents on his toes.
Dave stated the state didn’t have any objection if Raju used to be tested once more by way of an unbiased central govt clinic within the presence of a judicial officer and prompt AIIMS Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh or Manipal Health facility. Rohatgi, on the other hand, disagreed with each choices and asked that Raju be despatched to AIIMS, New Delhi for scientific exam at his personal expense.
Showing for the Centre, Solicitor Common Tushar Mehta stated he had no objection to the AIIMS proposal. The court docket, on the other hand, prompt Military Health facility, to which all events agreed.
The court docket additionally stated the Y Class safety body of workers Raju is entitled to will escort him “best until the Military Health facility and don’t need to be provide on the time of scientific exam”.
The court docket stated it used to be now not going into the deserves of the allegations made within the FIR and the submissions made in that regard at the moment as it’s all for Raju’s scientific situation about which there’s a reference within the Justice of the Peace’s order. The Justice of the Peace had famous that the MP had gone through bypass surgical treatment in December 2020.
The bench gave the state two days to document its answer and stuck the subject for listening to subsequent on Would possibly 21.