Ayyanna Patrudu taken into custody amid high drama
The Hindu
Court later frees former TDP Minister on bail
Amid high drama former Telugu Desam Party Minister and senior leader Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu was taken into custody by officials from AP CID from his house in Narsipatnam in Anakapalli district, in the early hours of Thursday. His youngest son Ch. Rajesh, who is a local councillor representing the TDP, was also taken into custody.
But the incident culminated in an anti-climax for the officials concerned, as the Judge of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Visakhapatnam granted a bail to Mr. Ayyanna and his son and asked the AP CID to issue notice under 41 A Cr.P.C.
Immediately, as the word spread that a bail had been granted to Mr. Ayyanna, celebrations broke out in his home town Narsipatnam and at all TDP offices in Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli district. TDP leaders and Padmavati, wife of Mr. Ayyanna, welcomed the court’s order and said that ‘justice has prevailed’.
This was the third time that the Andhra Pradesh police had tried to take the former TDP Minister into custody, having failed on two earlier occasions.
But on Thursday morning, based on concrete information that the former Minister was present at home, the AP CID team along with local police reached his home around 2.30 a.m., and picked him and his son, and had initially brought them to the AP CID office in Arilova in Visakhapatnam city.
He was later sent for medical examination at a Community Health Centre (CHC) at Simhachalam and brought back to the office. In the evening he was produced before the Judge of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
The senior TDP leader was taken into custody for alleged encroachment of land and forgery of documents. The police have reportedly registered cases under various Sections of the IPC for forgery such as 464,467,471 and 474, a few of which are non-bailable sections, according to a police officer.