Dr Sudhakar Rao Kolaventy’s mother moves habeas corpus petition in AP high court

VIJAYAWADA: Kolaventi Kaveri Lakshmi Bai, (pic) mother of suspended anaesthetist Dr Sudhakar Rao Kolaventy, on Thursday moved the AP high court with a habeas corpus petition seeking directions to authorities to produce her son before court.
She pleaded in her petition that her son was neither in police custody nor in judicial custody.
“He is under illegal confinement based on a false report that he is suffering with mental illness and is being given wrong medical treatment by administering clozapine or typical antipsychotics like haloperidol,” she said in the petition, adding that her son has already developed side-effects due to his diabetic condition at the mental health hospital in Vizag.
As the high court in its earlier judgement allowed to move a house motion in case of emergency, she said she has no alternative but to move the habeas corpus given the condition of her son.
While the petition of Lakshmi Bai is yet to be heard, the high court on Thursday raised some technical aspects in the petitions moved by Dr Sudhakar requesting that he be shifted to another hospital.
The HC said the advocate, who appeared on behalf of Dr Sudhakar, mentioned in his verification that his client’s statement was verified at Amaravati while he was in the mental health hospital in Vizag. They have not produced any certificate from the hospital that his counsel came to the hospital to take the affidavit, the court observed.