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AP HC bars coercive action against YSRC leader Bhumana
Deccan Chronicle reports that the Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed police not to take coercive action against YSRC senior leader Bhumana Karunakar Reddy and his family in a trespass case. Justice…
The Story in Brief
Deccan Chronicle reports that the Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed police not to take coercive action against YSRC senior leader Bhumana Karunakar Reddy and his family in a trespass case. Justice Y. Lakshmana Rao heard a petition filed by the Tirupati district collector, who alleged that Reddy and his family trespassed into Survey No. 478 of a private approved layout at Thanapalli in Tirupati Rural mandal.
The court questioned the collector’s role in a private dispute and objected to describing Reddy and his supporters as goondas. It noted that the owner of the layout had not lodged a complaint. The investigating officer has been allowed to continue the probe.
The Indian Opinion
The collector’s decision to personally lodge a trespass complaint against a political rival, when the landowner has not complained, feeds the charge of vendetta. Courts exist to check such overreach, and this order does that. But citizens must watch if the collector now files a proper appeal or drops the matter. If the state machinery is used to harass opponents, the test lies in whether the same standard applies when a ruling-party man is accused of trespass.
Source: deccanchronicle.com
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