hyderabad a special anticorruption bureau court late thursday rejected telangana polices plea for judicial custody of three men arrested the previous night after being allegedly caught redhanded trying to bribe four mlas of cm k chandrashekar raos party into defecting to bjp the trios release on condition that they can be interrogated under section 41 of the crpc right of an arrested person to seek the presence of a lawyer of choice came hours after the police claimed to have found on one of them a list containing the names of 55 trs legislators they planned to approach for defection it wasnt immediately clear if the mlas had already been contacted kcr alleged that bjp was trying to poach his mlas to replicate the maharashtra model in his state while the saffron party moved the telangana high court to hand over the police probe either to the cbi a commission headed by a sitting hc judge or a special investigation teamthe allegations levelled against bjp and the manner in which the four trs mlas have been protected by police and allowed to go clearly show that the state is a party to the episode hence we do not have any faith in the state police in this particular case bjp general secretary g premendar reddy said the party claimed all four mlas were escorted to pragathi bhavan the cms residencebased on a complaint by trss tandur mla rohith reddy the police had charged delhibased religious preacher ramachandra bharathi alias satish sharma hyderabad businessman nanda kumar and simhayaji swamy of tirupati with criminal conspiracy bribery and attempting to bribe a public servant under sections of the prevention of corruption act the suspects were produced before a special judge for judicial remand late thursday after being interrogated for nearly 24 hoursaccording to the complaint bharathi and nanda kumar said to be from bjp met reddy on september 26 and offered rs 100 crore and other benefits for him to resign from trs and join the saffron party they also stated that if i do not join bjp there will be criminal cases and raids by edcbi and the telangana government led by trs party will be toppled rohith allegedsources said investigators told the special judge during the remand hearing that they had audiovisual recordings and texts as evidence to prove that the suspects were trying to bribe the four mlas mobile phones seized from the trio also purportedly contain evidence to implicate themthe accused asked rohith reddy to mobilise other trs mlas so that they could offer them bribes of rs 50 crore each to join bjp the fir states on wednesday trs claimed three people linked to bjp tried to lure mlas rega kantha rao guvvala balaraju and beeram harshvardhan reddy besides rohith reddy bjp has made only rohith reddy a respondent in its plea the mla had won the tandur seat on a congress ticket in 2018 but later defected to trs trs alleged that bjp was trying to make