hyderabad: The POCSO case registered towards Bandi Sanjay’s son has escalated right into a full-fledged political controversy in Telangana, with the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samti (BRS) demanding the Bharatiya Janata Get together chief’s removing from the Union Cupboard.
Because the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) is actively planning to make inroads into Telangana, a BJP chief, ThePrint, stated he was involved that the incident would have an effect on public notion and negatively affect the social gathering. In the meantime, BRS is making an attempt to reap the benefits of Bandi Sanjay’s mishandling of the scenario.
Including to the BJP’s nervousness, the controversy comes forward of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Hyderabad. Bandi Sanjay has not defended his son however termed the POCSO case as a “political blow” aimed toward defaming him forward of a public assembly of Modi. On Saturday, he claimed that his political opponents don’t want Backward Class (BC) leaders to enter politics.
The eldest son, Bandi Bagheeras, was arrested underneath the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO) and Bharatiya Janata Get together (BNS) from the Pet Bashirabad police station in Hyderabad on Friday evening after he was accused of sexually harassing a minor woman.
In a First Info Report (FIR), the mom of a 17-year-old woman accused Bagheeras, with whom she was having an affair, of sexually assaulting and harassing her.
In response to the FIR, Sanjay’s son had been harassing the woman for over six months and was misbehaving along with her at a farmhouse in Moinabad. The complainant stated the 2 got here into contact by mutual buddies and Bagheeras took unfair benefit of their closeness.
The boy has not but been medically examined or formally questioned by investigators.
In the meantime, hours earlier than the grievance was registered on Friday, Bagheeras filed a counter-complaint alleging extortion and felony intimidation by the teenage woman and her mother and father.
“Believing that I might belief them, I accompanied them to the holy place. Later, her mother and father threatened me, however I refused. The woman and her mother and father demanded cash and threatened to file a false felony case towards me for harassment and sexual activity. Out of concern, I gave Rs 50,000 to the woman’s father, however the father demanded Rs 50,000,000, in any other case the woman threatened to commit suicide,” he claimed.
BRS college students’ wing Bharat Rashtra Samiti Vidyarthi laid siege to the DGP’s workplace in Hyderabad on Sunday, demanding rapid arrest of Bhagirath. An illustration was held in entrance of the Pet Bashirabad police station, the place BRS leaders accused each the Bharatiya Janata Get together and the Congress of protecting the accused.
“The truth that PM Modi and Chief Minister Revanth Reddy shared the stage with Bandi Sanjay on Sunday reveals who’s defending him. The gloves are definitely off and the BJP’s Beti Bachao motion could now be formally shut down,” stated a BRS lady chief.
BRS working president KTRAma Rao (KTR) informed X: “What sort of dystopian nightmare hell are we residing in? Why does a 17-year-old rape sufferer and her household should wrestle for greater than three months to register an FIR?”
KTR requested the police, “On what guidelines did the Telangana Police register the honey entice and extortion case towards the minor woman?”
Former IPS officer and BRS chief RS Praveen Kumar additionally alleged that the woman’s household was made to attend for a number of hours in entrance of Pet Bashirabad police station to make sure that Bagheeras’ FIR was first registered in Karimnagar.
BRS leaders accused Mr Bagheeras of abusing his father’s energy and place as he was additionally discovered on the incorrect facet of the regulation three years in the past. In January 2023, Bagheeras was embroiled in an argument over an alleged assault on a classmate.
On the time, movie director Ram Gopal Varma likened Bhagirath to Saddam Hussein’s notorious son Uday Hussein, quipping that it was by him that the “period of the dictator’s sons” was being reborn.
(Edited by Tony Lai)
Additionally learn: POCSO legal guidelines want to guard, not punish, younger individuals for consensual relationships
