Overview
- Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday directed DGP C. V. Anand to open an inquiry and form special teams, with a police SIT and the state child‑rights commission stepping in to oversee the case.
- Police said the FIR was filed Friday at Petbasheerabad on a complaint that a 17-year-old was sexually assaulted at a Moinabad farmhouse on December 31, and they booked BNS Sections 74 and 75 and POCSO Sections 11 and 12.
- Bandi Bhageerath filed a counter-complaint in Karimnagar hours earlier alleging blackmail and a Rs 5 crore demand after paying Rs 50,000, and police said both cases are under investigation.
- DGP Anand told the CM that officers were tied up with security for the Prime Minister’s Sunday visit as protests grew outside the Petbasheerabad station and opposition leaders alleged the FIR was delayed.
- BRS leaders demanded the minister’s dismissal and the accused’s arrest, while Bandi Sanjay called the case a political hit job and his party allies described the allegations as a honey-trap, with key investigative steps like a medical exam and a magistrate’s statement still pending.