The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear on February 17 a plea against the Telangana High Court’s order for the CBI probe into alleged criminal conspiracy behind the attempt to poach BRS MLAs by the BJP.
Senior advocate Sidharth Luthra mentioned the matter before a bench presided over by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud. He contended the matter required urgent hearing as if the CBI takes over the probe, the petition here would become infructuous.
The bench, also comprising Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala, however, said the matter would be taken up on the 17th of February.
On the 29th of October, Mr. Pilot Rohit Reddy, a MLA of the BRS, exposed three people, who were said to be close aides of the BJP, trying to bribe the BRS MLAs. Mr. Pilot Rohit Reddy filed a first information report (FIR) with the State Police and alleged the BJP was behind the poaching of MLAs.
Later, on the 3rd of November, Mr. K. Chandrashekar Rao, the Chief Minister of Telangana, released video evidence of the allegations of poaching of the MLAs and submitted the same to the State Police. Soon, the Government of Telangana formed a SIT led by high ranking officials.
However, the BJP who denied the allegations of the BRS Government moved the Telangana High Court, demanding a CBI probe. After the hearing, a single bench judge of the Telangana High Court dismissed the investigation and ordered for a fresh probe by the CBI.
As of now, the CBI is investigating the controversial case of the poaching of the BRS MLAs by the BJP, from scratch.
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