Cases and Courts

His public work has brought him into repeated conflict with the state. This page records, in date order, the cases filed against him and what the courts have said about them.

In his own words

Writing in May 2022 in Sakshi, he said that nine cases had been registered against him under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, along with a sedition case, during years in which he raised people’s issues, and that he had spent nearly a year in prison. In the same column he welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to hold the sedition law in abeyance and asked for the same approach to the UAPA.

Dates and court outcomes

1. 15 October 2019Arrested in Hyderabad together with B. Maddileti, president of the Telangana Vidyarthi Vedika. Their families filed habeas corpus petitions in the Telangana High Court.
2. 17 October 2019A division bench of the High Court observed that the arrests had not followed the procedure required by the Code of Criminal Procedure.
3. 29 October 2019The same bench dismissed the habeas corpus petitions, citing Supreme Court rulings that such petitions cannot examine the legality of an arrest, and said the families were free to pursue other remedies, including compensation.
4. June 2020Arrested by the National Investigation Agency in a case first registered in 2019.
5. August 2020Granted bail. The agency filed its charge sheet later the same month.

This record will be updated as the cases progress.