HYDERABAD: Justice Shameem Akther of the Telangana high court on Friday directed the Hyderabad police not to take any coercive steps against former Kurnool MP Butta Renuka in an FIR registered against her at Madhapur police station.
The judge gave this interim direction after hearing the petition filed by Renuka challenging the action of the police in making her an accused in the case. The police made her one of the accused after registering a complaint lodged by one Boyapati Mahender Reddy, treasurer of St. Mary’s Educational Society, Hyderabad.
The grievance of the St Mary’s society is that though the former MP and her husband entered into a sale agreement to sell their Meridian educational group land at Kukatpalli worth Rs 40 crore to the society and even took Rs 6.5 crore as an advance in 2018, they failed to register the land in favour of the society in the last three years and did not refund the advance.
Appearing for Renuka, her counsel N Niyata said that the former MP’s husband is working with Meridian group as its secretary. “The sale agreement too was done between the St Mary’s society and the Meridian group. Her husband may have been a signatory to the agreement because he is its secretary. The complainant and the police have purposefully made Renuka an accused though she was not a signatory to the agreement.
This was done only to bring pressure on her husband,” Niyata said. The judge invited counter from the police and directed them not to take any coercive steps against Renuka.
