Police Raid BRS Leader’s Kin’s Farmhouse

Hyderabad: Police here raided a farmhouse allegedly belonging to a senior BRS leader’s brother-in-law and booked one person, who tested positive for cocaine at the party organised there. Leaders of the ruling Congress in Telangana on Sunday said the party was held at the farmhouse of Raj Pakala, brother-in-law of the BRS leader, and demanded a thorough investigation over the matter.

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar alleged that the Congress government in Telangana is just “pretending” to enforce the law but is actually “protecting the BRS bigwigs”.

According to police, following input that a party was going on at the farmhouse in Janwada, with “drugs and liquor unauthorisedly”, a team of Cyberabad Police and Excise officials raided the place on the intervening night of October 26 and 27 and found 21 men and 14 women participants. All the male participants were subjected to drug tests and one person in the gathering tested positive for cocaine and a case under relevant sections of the NDPS Act was registered, a senior police said. During the raid, police found foreign liquor beyond the permitted quantity and that no permission was taken for the event.