The plea stated that the investigating officers were very threatening. On November 16, the applicants were served notices under Section 160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to appear at the SIT headquarters in Hyderabad, within three days.
Since the time provided was very short and the travel distance was quite a lot, they appeared for the interrogation at the Kochi camp. Subsequently, they were served with Section 41(A) CrPC notices to appear at Hyderabad by November 28.
The petitioners contended that they are only employees of the hospital where the doctor in question worked at, and that they have no connection to the politics of the State of Telangana in any manner.
However, since they apprehended arrest, they approached the Kerala High Court seeking anticipatory bail.
Source: Barandbench
