




Telangana Elections 2023: The Kamma community to which Chandrababu Naidu belongs has been feeling marginalised in Telangana. With perceptions among them strong that Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao is aligned to Jagan Mohan Reddy’s alleged witch-hunt that has purportedly landed Naidu in jail, it could lead to a strong mobilisation against BRS in around 30 seats where the Kammas are influential
A bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi will take up the plea for hearing on October 3.
Despite the case being listed for hearing today, the court could not take it up as Justice SV Bhatti recused from it.
On Friday, the Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissed the TDP chiefs FIR quash petition, prompting Naidu to approach the Supreme Court.
The ACB Court had on Friday granted the CID two days' custody of the 73-year old TDP chief for further interrogation in the case.
The judgment is expected to be pronounced within two days' time.
Naidu, who has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days for the alleged misappropriation of funds from the Skill Development Corporation, leading to a loss of over Rs 300 crore to the state government, had filed an interim bail petition as well as one seeking regular bail.
The court which was hearing a petition filed by Naidu requesting quashing the FIR registered against him in the case, posted for further hearing on September 19.
On Monday, a team of lawyers headed by senior counsel Siddharth Luthra representing Naidu had filed a petition to grant house custody for the former CM citing threat perception.
Naidu’s arrest over an alleged scam, over four years after his tenure ended, has won the embattled TDP support from key opposition parties. Has the formidable Jagan Reddy made a political miscalculation or was he taking countermeasures in view of Naidu’s rallies attracting large crowds?
The former chief minister was arrested in connection with the alleged Skill Development Corporation scam after a pre-dawn police operation at Gnanapuram in Nandyala on September 9.
Naidu was arrested at around 6 am today from his caravan parked outside a marriage hall at Gnanapuram in Nandyal town, in which the Leader of Opposition was asleep.
The former Andhra Pradesh chief minister has been arrested under relevant IPC sections, including Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and 465 (forgery), according to the notice served
The ED arrested them and produced them in Vishakapatnam Special PMLA court, which remanded the accused to judicial custody for seven days till March 20.
The incident comes just three days after the death of eight people during a similar event in Nellore in southern Andhra Pradesh.
Seven people are hospitalised. Due to heavy rush, a lot of people fell into a drain, resulting in casualties.
In an emotion-filled tone at a roadshow in Kurnool district late on Wednesday night, the former Chief Minister recalled his vow not to step into the Assembly till the TDP returned to power.
The YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government on Saturday said it was committed to decentralisation of governance and trifurcation of capitals and claimed that it has the legislative competence under the Constitution to shift the capital.
Andhra Pradesh power cuts: Women are seen sitting with infants fanning them to help provide some ventilation in the crowded ward.
The FIR was registered by CID on March 12, based on a complaint filed by YSRC MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy on February 24, over a month after the High Court struck down a case pertaining to "insider trading" in the alleged land scam.