Hyderabad, Feb. 21 -- A division bench of the Telangana High Court on Tuesday asked the state officials to file their counter affidavits in connection to a case on the Medak custodial death.

The division bench comprising of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Tukaramji had issued notices to Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary Home, DGP Telangana, Superintendent of Police-Medak, DySP - Medak and SHO-Medak on Monday and in today's hearing sought counter-affidavits in connection with the death of Mohammed Khadeer.

In today's hearing, Additional advocate general J Ramachandra Rao, appearing for the Telangana government contended that the death of the deceased occurred 14 days after the date of his interrogation in a snatching case and a...