State police can probe the case on a par with any other the agency, says the court, A plea requesting for a court-monitored investigation by the CBI into the death of former Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kodela Siva Prasada Rao was dismissed by the Telangana High Court on Tuesday.
A division bench consisting of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A abhishek Reddy, scrutinizing the locus remaining of applicant Borrugadda anil Kumar for the situation declined to hear his Public Interest Litigation (PIL) supplication.
Hailing from Guntur district of AP, the petitioner told the court that there were suspicions over the reasons for the former Speaker’s death as he was found hanging in his house in Jubilee Hills in hyderabad on September 16. He bench sought to know from the petitioner how he was directly concerned with the death of Rao.
In case of any such suspicions, it was for the former Speaker’s family members to raise questions and seek clarifications. There was no public interest involved in the petition, the bench observed.
Referring to the plea to call for a report from the police and hand over the case to the CBI, the Chief Justice noted that the State police could probe the case on a par with any other new agency. He made it clear that the Supreme Court had earlier ruled that it was not correct to interfere in a case at the stage of an investigation.
