In a remand report, the police described how the IPS officers went out of their way and compromised on the provisions of law while registering a false case with an eye on focal postings and avoiding frequent transfers.
Published Sep 24, 2024 | 6:18 PM ⚊ Updated Sep 24, 2024 | 6:18 PM
Andhra Pradesh Police. (Wikimedia)
The Andhra Pradesh police have given a graphic account of how IPS officers under the previous YS Jagan Mohan Reddy regime had worked in collusion under the influence of a YSRCP leader Kukkala Vidya Sagar in framing an innocent female actor from Mumbai in a false case and arresting her and her parents.
In the remand report which they filed in a court in Vijayawada on Monday, 23 September, while producing Vidya Sagar, the police described how the IPS officers went out of their way and compromised on the provisions of law while registering a false case with an eye on focal postings and avoiding frequent transfers.
The police officers accused in the case are yet to be arrested.
The police listed Vidya Sagar as the primary accused (A1) and named the three IPS officers in the remand report — the then Intelligence Department chief PSR Anjaneyulu (A2), the then Vijayawada Police Commissioner Kanti Rana Tata (A3), the then Deputy Commissioner of Police Vishal Gunny (A6).
The others against whom cases were booked were: The then Vijayawada Assistant Commissioner of Police (West) K Hanumantha Rao (A4), the then Ibrahimpatnam Police Inspector M Satyanarayana (A5).
The police arrested Vidya Sagar from Dehradun and brought him to Vijayawada on Sunday night and produced him before a magistrate on Monday.
At the time of producing him, the police filed their remand report which allegedly exposed the role of the YSRCP leader and the police officers in the arrest of the Mumbai-based female actor who had to spend 42 days in Vijayawada prison even though she did not commit any crime.
In the remand report, the police said they had arrested Vidya Sagar after the actor recently filed a complaint with Ibrahimpatnam police, whose contents constituted a cognizable offence of registration of a false case against her and her family embers earlier this year in crime No:90/2024.
The false complaint against her was filed by Vidya Sagar at the instance of the police officials.
The police said that after investigating the complaint lodged by the the actor, they came to know that Vidya Sagar had hatched a conspiracy against her, for refusing to marry him.
He complained against her that she forged a document that suggested that he had sold his five-acre land in Jaggayyapet in the Krishna district to her and that she tried to sell it away.
The police officials, influenced by Vidya Sagar, ensured the registration of a false case against her with an eye on getting “focal postings” in the department and “avoiding” frequent transfers. The police officials “dishonestly” admitted the forged document without verifying its veracity.
The police said that the police officers who registered the case knew that the document was forged by Vidya Sagar and based on it, they arrested her and her parents at 3.30 pm on 3 February, this year.
She and her parents were produced in the court on 4 February, which sent them to judicial remand.
They were in jail for 42 days, including five days of police custody. The police said that Vidya Sagar committed a crime under section 467 of the IPC (forging valuable securities and documents) besides other crimes that attract several sections of the IPC.
The crime under section 467 of the IPC attracts punishment for a term of up to three years and a fine, the police said in their remand report.
(Edited by Muhammed Fazil)
