BENGALURU: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader C T Ravi’s advocate, Sidharth Suman has raised concerns over the legality of the leader’s arrest in connection with the ‘derogatory’ remarks case filed by Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar, and said the arrest was not made in compliance with Supreme Court guidelines.
The advocate pointed out that legal directives, which require certain protocols to be followed during an arrest, were not adhered to in CT Ravi’s case. Sidharth Suman said, “Challenging the illegal arrest of BJP MLC CT Ravi, we have asked for is to say that the arrest is not in accordance with the guidelines as laid down by the honourable Supreme Court, which is followed by the High Court of Karnataka, which is also a direction given to the state government as well to follow these guidelines. None of these guidelines have been adhered to. They went ahead and arrested him immediately”.
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“I am not trying to trivialize the arrest in any manner. The main contentions that we have taken are that if it is an offence which is punishable in 3 years or one year, what is the need to have him arrested right away?” said the advocate.
Further, he said, “There were certain observations that were made, is that there was an injury that was sustained. How his injury transpired, none of it was justified. The update of the interim relief is ‘release forthwith’ which means that wherever he is, he will be released. The only condition is that he has to cooperate in the investigation”.
BJP leader CT Ravi was granted bail by the Karnataka High Court on Friday following his arrest in a ‘derogatory’ remarks case filed by Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar.The decision came after the court’s single-judge bench, headed by Justice M G Uma, issued an interim order for his release.
Ravi had been arrested following allegations stemming from a complaint by Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar, which led to the legal action.
Speaking after securing release CT Ravi in a statement said, “Our custodian was Chairman, when our custodian clearly said and gave ruling a false case was filed against me and they treated me like a terrorist, let them introspect what have they done, I’m not doing well as I didn’t eat properly last night and in the morning. It’s a win for the truth, this High Court order clear message that we all must follow the law. Though there was no proof against me I was arrested.”
On Friday, the BJP leader was brought to Bengaluru and produced before the People’s Representative court in connection to the case.The BJP leader accused the Congress-led Siddaramaiah government of acting like ‘dictators’ following his arrest in the case.
“They (state government) have acted like dictators, there is a full stop to everything, dictatorship will not last long,” said C T Ravi after he was arrested.
CT Ravi also filed a counter-complaint at the Khanapur police station in Belagavi, accusing Congress leaders Lakshmi Hebbalkar, Chennaraj Hattiholi, DK Shivakumar and others of attempting to kill him. He alleged that the police brought him to the Khanapur police station without providing a reason. (ANI)