Former Kodangal MLA and BRS leader Patnam Narender Reddy has said that all the allegations made against him by the police FIR related to the Lagacharla pharma farmers’ revolt incident in Vikarabad district are false. He said that he did not give any statement to the police and disagrees with all the allegations mentioned in the remand report.
Narender Reddy, who is on judicial remand in Cherlapally jail, submitted an affidavit to his lawyers to this effect on Thursday. He asked that it be filed in the Kodangal Judicial Court. He said that two days ago at 7 am, he was forcibly detained by the police in Mufti from KBR Park and taken to Parigi DTC and detained between 9.30-10:00 am.
He clarified that no policeman spoke to him in this process and that he did not give any statement. The police took him to a government hospital, underwent medical tests and took signatures on some papers, he said in the affidavit. He said that he was produced before the judge within ten minutes.
He said that the police did not inform him about his being included as A-1 in the case until 4.30 pm. He expressed his grief that he was unfairly shown as A-1 in the case and said that the police did not inform his wife and family members that he had been arrested even before he was produced before the judge.
He alleged that the police filed a fabricated statement as if he had admitted to the police that he had played a key role in the case on the instructions of his party leader KTR and others, and that he was surprised to hear this from his wife on Thursday. He made it clear that it was a complete hoax.
He said that he strongly disagreed with all the allegations made by the police at the behest of his political opponents. In this context, Narender Reddy requested the magistrate in his affidavit to take all these facts into consideration and issue orders to ensure that due justice is done.
Meanwhile, 16 farmers who were arrested in the attack on officials in Lagacharla, Dudyala mandal, Vikarabad district and kept in Parigi sub-jail were shifted to Sangareddy jail on Thursday. Parigi sub-jail is located near Kodangal. It is reported that they were shifted to Sangareddy jail amidst police security due to the large number of people coming for meetings.
