Andhra Pradesh HC denies bail to accused in custodial torture case

Tulasi Babu, a leader of YSR Congress Party, was arrested on January 7 and questioned multiple times

Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday dismissed the bail petition of K. Tulasi Babu, an accused in the custodial torture case of former MP and current Assembly Deputy Speaker K. Raghu Rama Krishna Raju.

The High Court, which had reserved its order on the bail petition on February 11, pronounced the same on Friday. Raju, then an MP, was arrested and allegedly tortured in police custody in 2021 when the YSR Congress Party was in power. After the TDP-led coalition came to power, a case was registered against former Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy and others on a complaint by Raju.

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Tulasi Babu, a leader of the YSR Congress Party, was arrested on January 7 and was questioned multiple times. He was also interrogated along with retired CID Additional SP K Vijay Paul, another accused in the case. In an identification parade conducted by the police in the presence of the Guntur District Judge last month, Raju identified Tulasi Babu among five suspects.

During the hearing on Tulasi Babu’s bail petition, the prosecution told the court that CID officers and constables on duty testified that four masked individuals entered the CID office and attacked Raju, with one of them sitting on his chest.