In a significant legal development regarding the POCSO case against Bandi Bageerath, the City Civil Court in Hyderabad has issued a strict gag order protecting the identity of his father, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Bandi Sanjay Kumar. Responding to a petition filed by the Union Minister on Friday, May 15, 2026, the court ruled that his name, photographs, and videos must not be linked to or used in media coverage concerning the criminal allegations against his adult son.
The court’s directive places an absolute ban on connecting the Union Minister’s political persona to the ongoing investigation. Furthermore, the judiciary has set a firm deadline, ordering all social media networks, digital platforms, and media houses to completely remove any existing articles, videos, or posts that have dragged Bandi Sanjay’s name into the case by May 26, 2026. The Minister’s legal counsel emphasized that failure to comply with this order will result in immediate punitive and legal action against the offending digital platforms and organizations.
The legal intervention aims to decouple the personal criminal liability of the 25-year-old accused from his father’s public office. While the police procedures and judicial remand against Bandi Bageerath proceed independently following his surrender, digital spaces and media platforms are now legally obligated to scrub the Union Minister’s name from the narrative.
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