Party can't interfere in a 'personal dispute': Mohan Babu

Telugu film star and Rajya Sabha member Mohan Babu on Monday appeared before the disciplinary action committee of the ruling Telugu Desam Party and asserted that the party had no locus standi to interfere in a ''personal property dispute''.

The DAC, headed by former Vijayawada MP V Sobanadeshwara Rao, had asked the actor to show cause why action could not be taken against him for allegedly manhandling TDP leader Shankar Reddy.

Addressing the media after his two-hour deposition, a belligerent Mohan Babu said the DAC's action was ''atrocious''.

Denying that he had manhandled Reddy, he said he was only a witness to the ''fracas'' between Reddy and his brother-in-law at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He separated them and later took them to the police station and lodged a complaint.

However, he withdrew the complaint the same night following a request from Home Minister A Madhav Reddy that a compromise should be worked out.

''The next day, Minor Irrigation Minister Gopalkrishna Reddy visited Tirupati and asked Superintendent of Police Gautam Sawang to register a case against me. I was subsequently arrested and released on bail," he added.

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