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In a strange case two judges -- father and son -- landed in jail in a dowry harassment case in Hyderabad. A court in the city remanded T Kiran Kumar, a magistrate, his father second additional district sessions judge of Mahbubnagar T Narasimha Rao and his wife Narayanamma to two weeks' judicial custody on the complaint of harassment for dowry.
The trio were arrested on the complaint of a medical doctor Shashikala that her husband Kiran Kumar and in-laws were torturing and harassing to bring more dowry. The deputy commissioner of police, detective department Praveen Kumar said that the arrests were made after getting clearance from the High Court as it involved judges.
The police produced the family before the 13th additional Chief Metropolitan magistrate, Hyderabad who remanded them to judicial custody for two weeks. This is first time that the people of level of judges have been arrested in connection with a dowry harassment case in the state.
Kiran Kumar, a junior civil judge at Raidurg in Anantapur district was already under suspension in another case of impropriety and his father was also likely to face a similar action. T Narasimha Rao was the judge of a special court for the cases of atrocities on scheduled castes and tribes.
Shashikala, a medical doctor, was staying with her parents for the last one year due to the harassment. His father is a theater owner in the city.
According to the family sources, at the time of the wedding in 2005, the groom's family had demanded a kilo gram of gold and Rs 5 lakh in cash which was met by the bride's parents. Subsequently the demands for more dowry continued.