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Process
begins for withdrawing Telangana agitation cases
Saturday, October 02, 2010 07:17:55 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad:
The Andhra Pradesh government has initiated the process to
withdraw cases against students and others who participated in the
agitations for and against separate Telangana state last year,
Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy said Saturday.
She told reporters here that the process for withdrawal of cases
has begun at the district level.
The cases would be reviewed over the next 15 to 20 days and the
number of cases to be withdrawn would be known only after the
process is completed. "The government will issue an order
withdrawing the cases," she said.
According to Reddy, police filed 1,171 cases against 5,374 people
from November last year to Aug 15 this year. She said while
withdrawing petty cases would not be a problem, cases relating to
serious offences like attack on police, damaging buses and other
public and private property would be reviewed before a decision is
taken on them.
The state government started the process of withdrawing cases
against Telangana and Samaikyandhra (united Andhra) agitators a
day after Chief Minister K.Rosaiah held high-level meeting with
Sabita Reddy, Director General of Police K. Aravinda Rao and
former home minister K.Jana Reddy.
The decision to drop the cases was taken on the recommendation of
a committee comprising Sabita Reddy and Jana Reddy.
This would meet a major demand of all the political parties and
groups fighting for separate Telangana state. Congress leaders
from the region had even petitioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
and Home Minister P. Chidambaram on this last month.
It was Chidambaram who had announced Dec 9 last year that cases
against students and others during Telangana movement would be
withdrawn. However, the cases could not be withdrawn due to
various legal issues involved.
More cases were later booked in Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra
regions when students and other groups took to streets and
resorted to violence, opposing the demand for a separate Telangana
state.
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