Hyderabad: The Telangana high court on Friday said that it preferred to close the case seeking registration of FIR against former CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, former irrigation minister T Harish Rao and others over alleged corruption in Kaleshwaram project following petitioner N Rajalinga Murthy‘s death.
Murthy was murdered in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district on Wednesday.
While resuming hearing on Friday, Justice K Lakshman said he had come to know about Murthy’s death from media reports and the case deserved to be closed. However, public prosecutor Palle Nageswar Rao said the issue has huge public interest and cited Supreme Court judgments to suggest that cause survives in such matters, urging the court to explore the possibility.
The judge expressed doubts about such a proposition and directed the PP to furnish copies of any such legal decisions.
“If you want, you can get the same complaint filed by any other person,” the judge said, indicating the petition cannot be sustained. Murthy had approached the police with a complaint to register an FIR against the BRS leaders, charging them with irresponsible decisions that led to the sinking of piers of Medigadda barrage. When both police and the jurisdictional magistrate court refused his plea, Murthy approached the principal district and sessions court in Bhupalpally. The court decided to hear the case and issued summons to KCR and others.
This order was challenged by the BRS leaders in the high court. While the case was being heard, Murthy was murdered. Rapolu Bhaskar, the counsel for Murthy in previous hearings, had sent his junior on Friday. The junior advocate could not answer the court’s query on who would instruct them following their client’s death. The judge posted the case to Monday.
