Bandi Bhageerath, son of Union minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar, surrendered before the police in Telangana on Saturday evening, hours after the High Court declined to give interim protection from arrest in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act case, the Hindustan Times reported.Bhageerath was arrested from Narsingi near Hyderabad and was taken to Pet Basheerabad police station, Cyberabad Police Commissioner Ramesh Reddy said.Bhageerath was later produced before a magistrate, who sent him to judicial custody till May 29, his lawyer Karunasagar was quoted as saying by ANI.The parents of a girl, reported to be a 17-year-old, have alleged that Bhageerath befriended their daughter on the pretext of marriage and sexually assaulted her at a farmhouse in Moinabad on December 31.Based on the girl’s statement, the police added charges of rape under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and aggravated penetrative sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act to the first information report.Bhageerath has also registered a complaint, accusing the girl and her family of blackmailing and extorting him of Rs 5 crore. Based on his complaint, the police registered a case of extortion and criminal intimidation against the girl and her parents.A High Court vacation bench of Justice T Madhavi Devi had heard the matter till midnight on Friday, the Hindustan Times reported. She reserved orders on the anticipatory bail petition by Bhageerath and said that the verdict would be delivered on May 21.While Bhageerath’s lawyer urged the court to grant interim protection from arrest until the anticipatory bail plea was decided, the judge said that she was not inclined to issue any interim directions, according to the newspaper.The Cyberabad Police claimed that during investigations, Bhageerath “admitted to have committed the said offence”, after which he was arrested.‘No wrongdoing from our side’, claims Union ministerKumar on Saturday said he wanted to reassure well-wishers, supporters and Bharatiya Janata Party workers that “there has been no wrongdoing from our side”.“We have complete faith in the legal process and truth will ultimately prevail,” he said in a social media post.The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs said that in the past week, his family had gone through an emotionally difficult phase.“The situation affected my entire family deeply,” Kumar said. “My mother suffered a heart stroke during this difficult phase, which was very traumatic. But in these testing times, the immense love & support extended by lakhs of people across the country gave me strength to stand firm.”Edited by Neerad Pandharipande.