Poachgate case probe will be monitored by HC Single Judge

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday said that the investigation into the alleged attempt to poach TRS MLAs would be monitored by Justice Bollam Vijaysen Reddy of the Telangana High Court. A division bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy on Tuesday said that the Special Investigation Team headed by Hyderabad police commissioner C.V. Anand, which is probing the case, must furnish reports from time to time only to the single judge, and not to any executive or political authority, and issued a set of instructions. The bench was hearing an appeal filed by the BJP unit, which had challenged the single judge’s modified orders of November 8, allowing the police to continue its investigation into ‘poachgate.’ The bench said that it may not be proper for the writ appellate court to stall an investigation into a crime of this nature for a long period. The Telangana High Court has issued a set of directions to the SIT probing the ‘poachgate’ scam: SIT shall submit first report in sealed cover before single judge on November 29.