Cops asked to probe Cong MLA's charge about missing documents

A local court here today directed Musheerabad police to probe the allegation made by former minister and Congress MLA P Shankar Rao that important documents had gone missing from his house following a raid by few policemen of Cyberabad Commissionerate in January this year.
Based on a private petition filed by Rao in the XVII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on July 4, the court allowed his petition and gave directions to the Station House Officer (SHO) of Musheerabad Police Station to probe the allegations against the police officials, including those attached to Keesara and Neredmet police stations.
The court also asked the SHO to file a report before it on September 27.

In his complaint, Rao had alleged that important documents related to the alleged corruption case against YSR Congress Party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy as well as papers pertaining to illegal red sandal smuggling in the state went missing, after the police officials conducted raids at his house in January this year.
Police in February this year filed a criminal case against Rao for allegedly "threatening and abusing" Neredmet Station House Officer P Srinivas.
The MLA from Secunderabad Cantonment constituency allegedly threatened Srinivas when he along with other policemen, went to serve notice on the legislator, who is accused of forging land documents related to a project at Neredmet here for "illegal" gains.

Rao's daughter Sushmita had also lodged a complaint with Musheerabad police, alleging that policemen from Neredmet manhandled the senior MLA when they went to pick him up from his residence for questioning in connection with a land case on January 31.
In November 2011, a criminal case was filed against the MLA, his brother P Dayanand and three others for allegedly duping the owners of housing plots in Green Field Colony.
Police wanted to question Rao in connection with the case after the Andhra Pradesh High Court lifted a stay on his arrest last year and went to his residence at Musheerabad on January 31.