Wednesday, March 25, 2009

A relief to Telangana KCR


By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, March 24 :A division bench comprising Justice V Eswaraiah and Justice P V SanjayKumar on Tuesday granted stay on the criminal proceedings launched against Mr. K Chandrasekhara Rao, president of Telangana Rashtra Samithi,by the Election Commission on him.
The EC on May 30, 2008 lodged complaints against Mr Rao onthe alleged violation of the provisions of Section 126 (1) (b) of the Representation of the People Act 1951, during the by-elections.
The police registered cases against Mr KCR in Hyderabad, Warangal,Mahabubnagar, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Medak, Nalgonda, Adilabad andRanga Reddy districts.

On Monday, Mr KCR approached the AP High Court seeking a direction to quash all the criminal proceedings pending against him in nine districts of Telangana.

He contended that there was no violation of provisions of the RP Act.Dealing with the petition the court directed the police to stop all the further proceedings till further orders

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