Nadendla Manohar, son of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nadendla Bhaskara Rao, has been remanded to judicial custody till August 28 for his alleged connection with the child adoption racket in the state, which was busted in April 2001.
Manohar, who is general secretary of the Sparsh Welfare Association, a voluntary organization running a children's home near Somajigudda in Hyderabad, and Jaleel Hussain, president of Sparsh, were produced before the metropolitan magistrate by the Crime Investigation Department of the state police on Friday.
Their bail applications have been posted to August 19 for hearing and their plea for medical assistance has been referred to the jail superintendent.
The CID had filed charges against the seven persons accused in this particular case of the adoption racket under sections 120(B), 341, 372, 419, 420, 465, 468, and 471 of the Indian Penal Code as well as various sections of the Orphanages and Charitable Homes Act.
The police had registered a first information report on June 8, 2001, at the Punjagutta police station on a complaint from M Eswar Rao, project director of the district women and children's welfare (WCW) department.