Meenakshi Natarajan named as respondent in private complaint

Shocked Congress leaders of Telangana scurried to find out the exact case in which AICC in-charge of Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan, whose Rajya Sabha nomination papers were rejected by the Returning Office in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, was involved.

According to the document accessed by The Hindu, it is a private petition filed by a former Congress leader and ex-Municipal Corporator from Tarnaka of erstwhile Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation in the Court of the 4th Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Hyderabad in 2025.

The complainant was a Corporator elected on TDP ticket from 2002 to 2007, who later worked as the State TDP Mahila secretary and Joint Secretary from 2007-2010. She later joined the Congress party.

In her petition, she had named as many as seven Congress leaders, including Kumbham Shiva Kumar Reddy (aspirant for Narayanpet Assembly constituency ticket), Ms. Natarajan (respondent number four), TPCC chief B. Mahesh Kumar Goud (then working president – respondent number three), Vakati Srihari, Minister for Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development (respondent number 5), and Chittem Parnika Reddy, Narayanpet MLA, among others, as the respondents.

Perusal of the petition revealed that the complainant had filed the petition in court against Mr. Shiva Kumar Reddy. The complainant had alleged threat to her life from Mr. Shiva Kumar Reddy and his supporters. She named other Congress leaders on the ground that they were appraised of the ‘harassment’ and ‘threats’ but had failed to act against the said person.

Based on the complaint, a case was filed in the Punjagutta police station on May 7, 2022, and also in Cubbon Park police station in Bengaluru on June 28, 2023. Subsequently, an FIR was registered based on the direction of the court under Section 223 of the BNSS on May 28, 2025.

The petitioner had referred Ms. Natarajan’s name in the petition only once, stating that she was the AICC in-charge of Telangana. The petitioner had alleged that all the Congress leaders named in the case were threatening her to withdraw the case.

Based on the petition, the Court of the 4th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Nampally served a notice on Ms. Natarajan to appear before it on September 17, 2025, and file a counter, if any.

Congress leaders and police sources too, revealed that except for the notice served on her, there were no cases registered against the AICC in-charge of Telangana.

Interestingly enough, BJP leaders in Telangana selectively leaked the private complaint petition but did not share the FIR copies to the media. Efforts to download the FIR copy from the official website of Telangana police too, proved futile.