{"id":110810,"date":"2025-03-27T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=110810"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:35:49","slug":"revanth-reddys-16-harrowing-nights-in-jail-barb-draws-ktr-retort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=110810","title":{"rendered":"Revanth Reddy’s 16 “Harrowing Nights In Jail” Barb Draws KTR Retort"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Revanth Reddy<\/a> vs KT Rama Rao<\/a> spat – which has included jabs over Telangana hosting the Miss World pageant<\/a> and the arrest of two women journalists<\/a> – continued Thursday with the Chief Minister’s comment about “16 harrowing nights in jail” in 2020, for flying a drone, when KTR’s party was in power.<\/p>\n

Addressing the Assembly this afternoon, the Chief Minister declared he had been “unfairly arrested” and sent to a high-security prison that also housed terrorists.<\/p>\n

“For 16 days I was kept in solitary confinement… not allowed to see anyone. Even then, I swallowed my anger and continued working for the state’s welfare,” he said, pointing out also the law only prescribed a Rs 500 fine for the misdemeanour with which he had been charged.<\/p>\n

He claimed his cell had bright lights left on all night and was unsanitary and unhygienic, and declared, “If needed, I can take MLAs and ministers there to show them the reality.”<\/p>\n

When released, Mr Reddy claimed he slept under a tree to “recover from the ordeal”.<\/p>\n

Mr Rao – who this month labelled the Chief Minister a “mad dog”<\/a> – snapped back, asking his rival, “Did you go to jail for participating in the freedom struggle? If someone flies a drone over your Jubilee Hills palace, and takes photos of your wife or children… will you stay silent?”<\/p>\n

“When it is about your family you react,” he thundered, referring to Mr Reddy’s outburst last week against social media posts that, the Chief Minister claimed, abused his family members.<\/p>\n

Responding to the BRS’ condemnation of the arrest of the women journalists – who got bail, but not till a week after their arrest<\/a> – Mr Reddy had said, “… how long should I be tolerant when bad language has been used against the women in my family?” and called for offenders to be “stripped and paraded”.<\/p>\n

The “16 harrowing nights” reference was to a case in which Revanth Reddy was accused of piloting a drone over KT Rama Rao’s farmhouse. Mr Reddy was arrested and jailed for two weeks.<\/p>\n

However, last week the Telangana High Court quashed the complaint, noting first the area had not been declared a prohibited zone and there had been no mention of KTR or his farmhouse in the police complaint, and second, that the charges in the FIR referred to misapplied provisions.<\/p>\n

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\u200bThe Revanth Reddy vs KT Rama Rao spat – which has included jabs over Telangana hosting the Miss World pageant and the arrest of two women journalists – continued Thursday with the Chief Minister claiming he spent 16 nights in jail for flying a drone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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