Ensure That Lady Advocate Who Wrote A Letter To CJ Related To Alleged Custodial Death Of A Person Is Not Threatened' Telangana HC Directs State DGP [Read Order]
Live LawThe Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the Director General of Police, Telangana State, to ensure that Advocate P. V. Nagamani and her husband are not threatened by any Police Officer, and that both of them are not called to any police station as long as this case is sub-judice before the Court. Subsequently, unable to bear the police atrocities, it was claimed that Mr. Rangaiah died in the lock-up under suspicious circumstances on 26.05.2020 at 4:00 a.m. Advocate Nagamani prayed before the Court to direct the Respondents therein to register the FIR as custodial death for the offences under section 176 Cr.P.C and u/s 302 of IPC and to conduct re-post mortem examination on the dead body with a team of Doctors to trace out the original facts, to stop the cremation of the deceased Sheelam Rangiah and also to conduct a judicial enquiry into the death of Sheelam Rangaiah The said letter was treated by the Telangana High Court as a Public Interest Litigation, and cognisance, on the basis of the said letter, was taken by this Court. By order dated 27.05.2020, the Court had directed Mr. Anjani Kumar, the Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad, to personally investigate the case with regard to the alleged incident, which had taken place in the Police Station, Manthani, on 26.05.2020, and to submit his Report. The Court further directed, "Meanwhile, this Court directs the Director General of Police, Telangana State, to ensure that neither Ms. Nagamani, nor her husband, Mr. Gattu Vaman Rao, is threatened by any Police Officer, and that they are not called to any police station as long as this case is sub-judice before this Court."