Telangana HC provides relief to K.T. Rama Rao; no arrest till December 30 in Formula E race case
The Hindu
Telangana High Court orders no arrest for K.T. Rama Rao in corruption case until December 30, investigation to continue.
The Telangana High Court has passed an interim order not to arrest former Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president K.T. Rama Rao till December 30 in a case of corruption registered by Telangana ACB over release of funds for Formula-E Race during BRS government.
In a relief for Mr. Rama Rao, Justice N. Shravan Kumar Venkat of the High Court directed on Friday (December 20, 2024) that the investigation into the case should continue and the former Minister should co-operate with the investigators. The case has been posted to December 27 for the next hearing.
Mr. Rama Rao moved a lunch motion in the Telangana High Court seeking direction not to take coercive steps against him.
The BRS MLA earlier reiterated that he is all prepared to face the Formula E race legally as Telangana Government is going ahead with the case despite the fact that there is no iota of corruption involved in it.
He said even the talk of Minister Ponnam Prabhakar had made it clear that there was no corruption in the case. Mr. Rama Rao stated that Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) was a corporation and there was a provision in the Act that funds could be spent through it for any developmental activity pertaining to the City.
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