Hyderabad, July 2 -- The Telangana High Court on Tuesday, July 1, came down heavily on Rachakonda police for meddling in civil disputes and observed that police stations had turned into "settlement addas."

The petition filed by Pamu Sudershanam alleged that Nagolepolice had detained him from 10 am to 9:30 pm on June 19, coercing him to settle a civil dispute over a land by accepting Rs 55 lakh, reported DC.

The court summoned Rachakonda police commissioner G Sudheer Babu and the station house officer (SHO) of Nagole police station, questioning them as to why a criminal case had been registered against the petitioner when the dispute was only civil.

According to the DC report, three civil cases are pending in the court, along with injun...