‘Unconscious’ Gupta not taken to custody
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A local court on Monday refused permission to the police to send realtor Gowri Shankar Gupta into judicial remand as he was brought in an “unconscious” state to the court. The court directed the police to admit the accused to hospital and bring him back for remand after his condition improved.
Gupta, who was recently arrested by the Central Crime Station (CCS) sleuths on charges of cheating, based on a complaint by officials of Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority, had complained of ill health and was admitted to a hospital soon after his arrest. At around 5 pm on Monday, CCS sleuths led by assistant commissioner of police K.V. Ram Narasimha Reddy, brought Gupta to the criminal courts complex at Nampally.
The sleuths brought him in a wheel chair till the court hall and when Gupta’s turn came, he was brought into the hall with the support of two persons and in an unconscious state with saliva dropping from his mouth. The judge was taken aback seeing Gupta in such a condition and immediately asked the police to arrange a wheel chair.
“How can you bring him when he was in such a condition? He can’t even tell his name. Where is the fitness certificate?” the judge asked. Ram Narasimha Reddy said Gupta was in good health when he was discharged from a hospital and the court staff and the police tried to wake him up and make him talk. Gupta’s counsel V. Surender Rao, told the judge that the police hastened to remanded the accused. “Gupta is a known diabetes patient and the remand diary itself shows that he was shifted from one hospital to another since June 22 when he was arrested,” Mr Surender Rao said.
The judge then noted down the team of officials who had brought Mr Gupta to the court and Mr Surender Rao intervened to say that the DCP had also come to the court and was waiting outside.
“Is the accused a terrorist?,” he questioned
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