KTR Refuses To Go Inside ACB Office Without Lawyer, Returns Without Inquiry Amid High Drama
Formula E Race Case: KT Rama Rao alleged that the police denied permission to lawyers to accompany him inside the ACB office for investigation.
Formula E Race Case: High drama unfolded on Monday morning in Hyderabad when BRS working president and former minister KT Rama Rao reached the ACB office for inquiry into the Formula E race case.
KTR alleged that the police denied permission to lawyers to accompany him inside the agency office for investigation. After a standoff for nearly 45 minutes, Rama Rao handed over a written reply to the ACB officials and returned to Telangana Bhavan, the BRS headquarters.
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The ACB summoned KTR to record his statement in connection with the Formula E race case involving the alleged transfer of Rs 45 crore to a foreign company, Formula E Organisers (FOE).
In the written response to the ACB, Rama Rao said that he would cooperate in the case subject to constitutional and legal rights as provided by the law.
“In your notice, you have not given details of the information and documents sought from me pertaining to the case. You are requested to give details of the documents sought from me about the case to take further necessary action at my end after giving a reasonable time for the same," Rama Rao told the agency in the written letter.
According to highly-placed sources, the ACB may consider his written reply and issue a fresh notice asking the BRS leader to appear personally to record his statement in the case.
KTR Slams Revanth Reddy
The BRS leader further accused the police officials and other law enforcement agencies of working under the instructions of Chief Minister and Congress leader Revanth Reddy.
“They are also planning to send an ED team to my house, and I strongly suspect that they will plant some evidence. I am a law-abiding citizen, and I will appear before the ACB, but I have the right to have a lawyer present with me. I do not trust this government and the police are acting under the instructions of a third-rate criminal like (Chief Minister) Revanth Reddy," KTR claimed.
He further added that he did not understand why the ACB had asked him to appear even though the Telangana HC had given him interim relief from arrest.
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