HC issues contempt notices to Sakshi
The AP High Court on Monday issued suo motu contempt notices to Sakshi newspaper, Sakshi TV channel and Ahobila Rao (Billy Rao) of IMGBharata for dragging the name of the A P High Court into a sting episode.A division bench comprising Justice Goda Raghuram and Justice P V Sanjay Kumar, which had earlier reserved its order on the IMG land case and is yet to deliver its order, specially sat on Monday though it was a holiday, in view of the latest developments.
Billy Rao, whose organisation IMG Bharata was allotted 850 acres of land on the outskirts of Hyderabad by the previous TDP regime at a nominal cost, had approached the court challenging the order of the present state government which cancelled the allotment.While the TDP regime allotted the land for developing sports and games infrastructure, the Congress regime cancelled it saying that IMG Bharata has nothing to do with sports and that it is a bogus outfit created only for the purpose of cornering valuable lands.
In the alleged sting operation carried out by Sakshi, Billy Rao was heard making many claims that he would succeed in this litigation.
The bench also ordered the DGP of the state to conduct an inquiry into the whole episode and submit a report. Contempt notices were issued to chief minister’s son and the chief of Sakshi Media Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, his news directors S Ramakrishna Reddy and Priyadarshini Ram as well. They have been ordered to respond to the notices and the matter was posted to June 2 for hearing.
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