Telangana BJP leader Jitta Balakrishnan arrested; Bandi Sanjay booked for ‘derogatory’ comments on CM KCR
India Today
Telangana Police arrested BJP leader Jitta Balakrishnan and booked state BJP president Bandi Sanjay for issuing derogatory comments against CM Chandrashekar Rao with an intention to mislead people and provoke them.
The Rachakonda Police in Telangana’s Hyderabad arrested BJP leader Jitta Balakrishna Reddy and have booked state BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar for criticising Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao using derogatory comments and calling the CM a “boozer and cheater.”
A case has been under sections 114, 504, 505 (2) read with section 109 of the Indian Penal Code at Hyathnagar police station
It was alleged that on June 2, the Telangana BJP unit, under the leadership of Bandi Sanjay and others, organised an event in view of the Telangana Formation Day and “misused the dais and played a skit (hate act) with the help of the BJP cultural team.”
Police said that the skit insulted a person who holds a constitutional post and was democratically elected by the people of the state.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) social media wing had approached the police alleging that BJP leaders had “defamed the government schemes with false accusations about the CM and the government with an intention to mislead the people and provoke hatred and unrest.”
Based on the written complaint, a case was registered in Hayathnagar police station against Bandi Sanjay, Jitta Balakrishna Reddy, Rani Rudrama, Boddu Yellanna, Daruvu Yellanna and his team under various penal sections for insulting persons and for giving provocation to cause distress and to offend the individuals on the basis of their association with a particular group.
Police said that the accused used “derogatory comments, personal attacks, depicting the Chief Minister of a state as a boozer, cheater etc., to lower the image of a person elected by democratic means and holding a constitutional post. Therefore, they have indulged in personal attacks and hate speech by way of playing a skit and causing distress among the public.”
