Times of India: Hyderabad: Saturday, 29 June 2024.
The Forum for Good
Governance on Friday urged CM A Revanth Reddy to strengthen the prosecution
wing to ensure that accused are punished.
FGG wrote to the CM after an RTI query by it to the state excise department revealed that four accused in the 12 FIRs registered by the excise department in connection with the Tollywood drugs scandal of 2017 were acquitted. The reason cited by the courts in the cases is that the prosecution had miserably failed to establish the guilt of the accused, said FGG.
“Keeping in view the fate of the cases booked earlier, people have doubts about the logical conclusion of cases being booked,” said FGG secretary M Padmanabha Reddy. The excise department, in its reply said 62 persons have been examined, including 12 connected to the film industry. FGG stressed that a proper inquiry has to be conducted and accused have to be punished.
FGG wrote to the CM after an RTI query by it to the state excise department revealed that four accused in the 12 FIRs registered by the excise department in connection with the Tollywood drugs scandal of 2017 were acquitted. The reason cited by the courts in the cases is that the prosecution had miserably failed to establish the guilt of the accused, said FGG.
“Keeping in view the fate of the cases booked earlier, people have doubts about the logical conclusion of cases being booked,” said FGG secretary M Padmanabha Reddy. The excise department, in its reply said 62 persons have been examined, including 12 connected to the film industry. FGG stressed that a proper inquiry has to be conducted and accused have to be punished.
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