Bharatiya Janata Party's national general secretary BL Santosh has been summoned by Telangana police in connection with the alleged attempts of the BJP to poach MLAs from the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
Santosh has been summoned by the Telangana government-appointed special investigation team constituted to investigate alleged attempts by BJP to poach TRS legislators.
The SIT led by the Hyderabad police commissioner CV Anand and supervised by a judge reports to the high court.
The court also ordered that all information regarding the probe would only be submitted to the judge in a sealed envelope by November 29.
The Cyberabad police had on October 26 arrested three persons- Ramachandra Bharati alias Satish Sharma, Nanda Kumar and Simhayaji Swamy at a farmhouse in Ranga Reddy on charges that they attempted to poach some TRS MLAs to the BJP.
Earlier on November 6, Telangana BJP MLA Etela Rajender accused the KCR government of trying to "finish the Opposition" by "purchasing" their legislators. -- ANI