Month: December 2003

Former Telugu Desam Party legislator Kotagiri Hanumantha Rao has been sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 2,500 for abusing a dalit. Rao (66) is a four-term legislator from Nuzvid. Machilipatnam First Additional District Sessions Judge T Doraswami handed down the sentence on Wednesday in connection with a private complaint under the Scheduled […]

The Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday stayed a lower court’s order directing the Anti-Corruption Bureau to probe allegations of corruption against Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in the procurement of liquor from private distilleries during 1997-2000. Principal Special Judge for Special Police Establishment and Anti-Corruption Bureau Cases S Anantasayana Prasad had on Friday admitted […]

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday said he was not averse to simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha along with assembly polls in the state. “My party is for holding of assembly elections latest by March 17 as school examinations are slated to be held after that date,” he told reporters after a one-to-one […]