The Telangana High Court dismissed a writ petition filed by a housewife Koduri Meena Kumari, seeking a direction to constitute a special investigation team of police, to probe into her illegal detention by the Hyderabad police. Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, dismissing her plea, said it was devoid of merits. The 41-year-old petitioner, hailing from Guntur of Andhra Pradesh and living in KPHB Phase-9 in Hyderabad, also wanted to declare her detention by the police as illegal and preservation of the CCTV footage of the police stations of Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad and Miyapur in Cyberabad to ascertain facts about her detention. The woman stated in her petition that she was summoned to Jubilee Hills police station on April 4 in a criminal case registered against her second son under different provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The petitioner’s son was arrayed as the third accused. He was arrested and remanded in judicial custody. The charges included sexual assault on minor girl and extortion. According to the petitioner, her son was implicated in the case. The petitioner charged that Hyderabad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar and Joint Commissioner of Police N. Sweta on the pretext of formal visit came to the police station and ill-treated her in the police station. According to her, the officers urged her to withdraw the complaints lodged by her with the National SC and ST Commission in the matter. She contended that the XV Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, in-charge of XVII Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, rejected her remand when she was presented before the court on April 5. Stating that the senior police officers abused the process of law and power, the petitioner wanted preservation of the CCTV footage of the two police stations and analysis of the call data records of the police officers to ascertain facts. After hearing contentions of the counsel for the petitioner Ambedkar Dunna and the Government Pleader for Home Mahesh Raje, the judge said the relief of constitution of SIT cannot be granted “because the contemporaneous record contained in the remand docket order of the learned magistrate clearly reflects that the petitioner herself acknowledged that no ill-treatment had been meted out to her”. In this backdrop, the allegations raised by the petitioner were untenable, the judge said. The HC did not find any material warranting the preservation of the CCTV footage or grant of any other relief, the order said. Published - June 06, 2026 06:50 pm IST