Hyderabad: A special anti-corruption bureau court late Thursday rejected Telangana police’s plea for judicial custody of three men arrested the previous night after being allegedly caught red-handed trying to bribe four MLAs of CM K Chandrashekar Rao’s party into defecting to BJP.
The trio's release on condition that they can be interrogated under Section 41 of the CrPC (right of an arrested person to seek the presence of a lawyer of choice) came hours after the police claimed to have found on one of them a list containing the names of 55 TRS legislators they planned to approach for defection. It wasn’t immediately clear if the MLAs had already been contacted.
This story is from the October 28, 2022 edition of The Times of India.
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