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Iamim Side Hero Username: Iamim Post Number: 3803 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 119.235.54.170 Rating: N/A |
Lawyer, 3 others held for threat letter to chief justice TNN, Mar 19, 2010, 03.15am IST late on Wednesday night picked up an advocate and three others for writing a letter to Andhra Pradesh HC Chief Justice Nisar Ahmed Kakru, threatening to physically harm him “if he tried to block the agitation” by lawyers fighting for the cause of a separate state. Justice Kakru fresh from Jammu & Kashmir HC had expressed displeasure over the boycott and disrution of court proceedings by lawyers seeking Telangana. Highly placed sources identified the advocate as B Jagan Mohan Naidu, a notary practising at the Ranga Reddy (RR) district courts in Kothapet. Of the remaining three persons detained, Sudhakar and Vishwanath are two brothers working as typists operating from a mobile van at the RR courts while the third is yet to be identified. Incidentally, Naidu did not try to disguise his letter: he signed it off with his name. But now he has claimed before the police that although the signatures were his, he had no knowledge about the contents. The threat letter was received by the CJ’s office last weekend and police sources indicated that the four picked up would be charged on Friday. The High Court is located in the jurisdiction of the Charminar police station. Advocates at the RR courts told TOI that Jagan Mohan was active in organising Telangana protests. Sources said that Naidu told the sleuths of the commissioner’s task force who had picked him up that he was innocent. “I had signed and given some blank stamp papers to typists who work outside the RR court. I did not write the letter,” he claimed. His wife Vijaya Kumari, who works as a stenographer with a judge at the City Civil court, also said that he was innocent and that he had never resorted to such type of acts till date. Jagan Mohan is a resident of RK Residency in Saleem Nagar Colony, Malakpet. |