CID names two Telugu TV channels in FIR; HC rejects MP’s bail plea

The Andhra Pradesh Police on Saturday named two Telugu television channels as co-accused in the sedition case filed a day ago against Kanumuri Raghurama Krishnam Raju, the rebel parliamentarian of the ruling YSR Congress Party.

Raju was arrested by the state Crime Investigation Department (CID) from his residence in Hyderabad on Friday evening. His lawyers immediately moved a bail petition in the Andhra Pradesh high court, which rejected it on Saturday and asked him to move the lower court first.

On Saturday evening, CID authorities produced Raju before the Sixth Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Guntur dealing with CID cases.