SANGAREDDY: A local Court on Thursday acquitted All India Majlis-e -Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, his brother and MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi and others in a case related to protesting against the demolition of a place of worship in Muthangi village of Patancheru mandal inSangareddy district.
The special prohibition and Excise judge Venkatram pronounced the judgment and acquitted the Owaisi brothers, and MLAs Mohammad Pasha Quadri, Mumtaz Khan, Moazzam Khan and 24 others in the case.
On April 16, 2005, the revenue officials started demolishing a compound wall of a place of worship on national highway 65 to widen the road near Muthangi village. When Majlis leaders learned about the incident they reached the spot and allegedly got into a heated argument with the then district collector Anil Kumar Singhal and other government officials. A case was registered at the Patancheru police station on the MIM members and supporters for abusing the collector and obstructing the government servants from discharging their duties.
The case was being heared in January 2012 and in the process court had issued a non-bailable warrant against the Majlis leaders for not attending the hearing. The MIM leaders filed a recall petition in the court in seeking cancellation of the non-bailable warrant. The court dismissed their petition which prompted Asaduddin Owaisi to surrender before the court and he was sent to judicial remand. He spent four days in the Sangareddy jail. Later, Asaduddin Owaisi was released on bail.
Around the same time, his brother was sent to Nirmal jail in Adilabad district in a case relating to making an inflammatory speech.
After the traial, the court on Thursday dismissed the case and acquitted the MIM leaders.