Advocate General Dammalapati Srinivas told the High Court on Friday that a conspiracy was hatched at the former Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) regarding the registration and arrest of film actress Kadambari Jatwani. He said that senior police officers were involved in the conspiracy.
He recalled that even before receiving the complaint from Kukkala Vidyasagar, senior police officers hatched a plan to implicate Jatwani in the case. Vishal Gunni, who was working as Vijayawada DCP and transferred to Visakhapatnam, was sent to Mumbai to supervise the Jatwani case without being relieved.
He further said that the then Vijayawada Commissioner Kanti Rana Tata made it clear to Gunni that he would be relieved only after he returned from there and Vishal Gunni’s statement before the disciplinary committee made this clear. There is a need to take the petitioners into custody and interrogate them to uncover the conspiracy at the CMO level, he added.
He said that Kukkal Vidyasagar filed a complaint on February 2 this year that Jatwani had tried to sell her land using a forged document and The police registered a case at 6 am on the same day. The then Vijayawada Police Commissioner Kantirana Tata had ordered his camp clerk to book tickets for the police to go to Mumbai a day before the complaint was received, he said.
“IPS officer Vishal Gunni and other police officers had reached the airport to go to Mumbai by the time the case was registered. There is prima facie evidence that the petitioners conspired to implicate Jatwani in the case. The investigation of the case is at a crucial stage. Due to interim orders, we could not arrest the petitioners and uncover the conspiracy angle. Granting anticipatory bail will influence the witnesses”, he added.
Who created the fake document? Who is behind the registration of the case against Jatwani? What is their role? Advocate General said that custodial interrogation of the petitioners is necessary to uncover these questions. He requested the High Court to dismiss the anticipatory bail petition of the petitioners.
IPS officers Kantirana, Vishal Gunni, the then Vijayawada ACP Hanumanthu Rao, investigating officer Satyanarayana, and advocate Venkateshwarlu had filed separate petitions in the High Court seeking anticipatory bail in the case registered on the basis of Jatwani’s complaint. Justice VRK Krupasagar posted the case to December 19.
