Firebrand Congress leader and Malkajgiri MP Anumula Revanth Reddy was at last granted bail by the Telangana high court on Wednesday in connection with alleged illegal operation of drones.
Revanth, the Pradesh Congress Committee working president, had been in Charlapalli jail for the last 14 days.
His judicial remand would anyway end on Wednesday and the court would have granted him the bail, unless it felt the charges were serious in nature.
Earlier, his bail petition was rejected by a local court at Kukatpally but Revanth moved the high court, which granted him conditional bail.
Interestingly, All India Congress Committee sent a battery of lawyers led by senior leader and Supreme Court lawyer Salman Khurshid to argue his case in the high court.
Revanth was arrested on March 5 for allegedly trespassing into the private property belonging to Telangana Rashtra Samithi working president and Information Technology minister K T Rama Rao at Janwada village of Ranga Reddy district.
The police belonging to Narsingi police station in Cyberabad limits took Revanth Reddy into custody soon after he landed at Shamshabad airport from New Delhi.
The police told him that he was being arrested for allegedly using drone cameras without permission at the farmhouse of KTR in Janwada village.
The TPCC leader alleged that KTR had illegally constructed a farmhouse at Janwada village that falls under Gandipet Gram Panchayath of Ranga Reddy district.
He said the construction was in violation of GO No. 111, which prohibits setting up industries and other structures within a 10-kilometre radius of the Himayatsagar and Osmansagar tanks.
Revanth told reporters than that KTR had spent Rs 25 crores to build the farmhouse in the land with an estimated worth of Rs 250 crores.
