HC orders bail for Ravi Prakash

October 26, 2019 12:28 am | Updated 12:28 am IST - HYDERABAD

Former CEO of Telugu news channel TV9 Ravi Prakash finally got a breather on Friday with the Telangana High Court instructing a lower court to consider his bail application and set him free.

Justice G. Sri Devi passed the direction to the Ninth Additional Metropolitan Magistrate of Kukatpally in Ranga Reddy district to release him on a personal bond of ₹15,000. Mr. Prakash should also furnish two sureties of equal sum, the order said.

After his bail applications were rejected by the trial court and HC, he moved the Supreme Court. At the apex court’s instance, he approached the HC again, which directed him to surrender having granted anticipatory bail.

While he was appearing before the Cyber Crime Police of Cyberabad every alternate day, as per the bail condition, Banjara Hills police issued another FIR against him on October 4. He was arrested the next day and lodged in Chanchalguda prison after being remanded in judicial custody.

“Even on October 4, Mr. Prakash appeared before the police. Keeping him in dark about the fresh FIR, police arrested him,” his lawyer T. Pradyumna Kumar Reddy said on Friday.

“He was arrested again on October 17 in a case filed five months ago,” the lawyer told the High Court. “For such cases, police should issue notice under Section 41 of CrPC, which was violated,” he said, following which the HC gave the order.

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