On the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, Telangana faces what critics call an “undeclared Emergency” under the Congress government. From land evictions to suppression of press freedom, parallels are being drawn with 1975’s authoritarian rule under Indira Gandhi.
The court, which had reserved its decision on November 20 following a petition by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Patnam Narender Reddy’s wife, delivered its verdict on Friday. Shurthi, the wife of the former MLA, had challenged the registration of three First Information Reports (FIRs) for the same incident. Justice K. Lakshman, after considering the arguments presented by Reddy’s counsel, decided to quash two of the FIRs.
Former Kodangal MLA, Patnam Narender Reddy denied to have made any confessional statement before the police attributing his involvement in the case to the directions of prominent BRS leaders such as KT Rama Rao and others.
