Telangana High Court on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction over the release of a PIL petition to the press personnel even before it was heard by the HC.
The plea was filed by Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president and Malkajgiri MP A. Revanth Reddy seeking a direction for probe by a special agency into the case of raid on a pub in Raddison Blue Plaza hotel. While five packets of cocaine were found on the pub premises, 148 persons partying there till 3 a.m. were detained only to be let off after questioning.
The MP stated that local police would not be able to probe the matter as the detained persons hailed from influential families. When the petition came up for hearing on Wednesday, the bench comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili sought to know from the petitioner’s counsel B. Rachna Reddy how the press accessed the PIL petition details even before the bench began adjudication.
