Actor-politician Balakrishna’s ‘Praja Darbar’ was huge hit on first day as people thronged to participate in the event. As part of the first day, Hindupur MLA Balakrishna took petitions from the people of 38 wards in the constituency. On few problems, Balayya directly spoke to concerned government officials on spot and asked them to resolve the problems being faced by the locals.

Balayya spoke to municipal officials on the troubles affected in the Hindupur Municipality. He advised officials to take necessary arrangements to solve them permanently. The Praja Darbar is a two-day event. On Thursday, he will be focusing on the problems of people living in Hindupur Rural, Lepakshi, Chilamathur mandals.

On whole, the response for the first day of Praja Darbar is good and productive and many felt that it was huge hit. Well done, Balayya.

In a shocking scoop carried out by the Indore Police, as many as 45 girls were gang raped by a team of notorious rapists and goons at the iconic Kajligarh Picnic Spot, located 16 kilometers from Indore, Madhya Pradesh. What’s even more shocking is that these gang rapes took place within just 2 years, averaging 2 rapes each month.

Most couples throng to this secluded picnic area for privacy and end up becoming soft targets for the dreaded gang of rapists, who threaten them by filming their private moments and take turns to terrorize and rape the girls. Unfortunately, no victim came forward in these 2 years to register a police complaint in a bid to not attract public attention towards their horror.

These rapists would usually spot a couple, snatch away their mobile phone SIM cards, handcuff the men and then rape the girl, while one of the members film the entire crime. They then leave the victims by taking their addresses and contact details from ID cards and would repeatedly blackmail them for money.

Going by the news reports, the Attoreny-General Mukul Rohatgi has advised Governor ESL Narasimhan to send a notice of Section 8 of AP Reorganisation Act to Telangana CM KCR. Mr Mukul apparently told Governor to send a draft notification of Section 8 to KCR and asked him to take KCR’s views on it.

In his letter to Governor, Mr Mukul said that if the Telangana CM failed to respond, the Governor may issue the notification of Section 8 on his own. He stated that Governor might give three days time for Telangana government to respond and that too as per Governor’s discretion.

The A-G wrote, “Firstly, the notification which you wish to issue under Section 8 of the AP Reorganisation Act must be preceded by consultation with the council of ministers of the state of Telangana. You may send the draft notification to the CM of Telangana and ask for his views. You may, in your discretion give three days to respond, where after you may issue the notification as per your discretion. If valuable comments are received from the Chief Minister, you may incorporate the same in the notification, but the final word is that of the Governor.”

He further added,”The draft of the notification may be prepared by your advisers. You may take care to direct not only the officers and employees of Government of Telangana, but you may direct the government itself.”  The Attoreny-General clearly told Narasimhan that Governor’s word would be final in this respect.

With this, it’s likely that Section 8 would come into force. It needs to be seen how the Telangana government is going to tackle the issue now. Let’s wait and watch.

In a significant political statement, Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Minister CH Ayyanna Patrudu made it clear that the government of Andhra Pradesh won’t leave joint capital Hyderabad until the new capital city of the truncated state is built. Ayyanna Patrudu made the aforementioned comments in Eluru of West Godavari district after holding meeting with district in-charge minister Peethala Sujatha, TDP MLAs and MPs of the district.

“Governor has to do equal justice to both the States. He has to resolve the issue without any prejudice. The onus to keep both the states in harmony lies on the Governor,” said Ayyanna Patrudu briefing the press. He alleged that Governor is not acting fairly.

“Until the new capital city (Amaravathi) of AP is built, we will stay in the joint capital Hyderabad.  Don’t try to muzzle us as it’ll not keep your respect. If you have your police force, we have our own police force. If you have ACB, we do have our ACB,” Ayyanna added. At one point, he challenged the Telangana government to do “whatever” you want by stating that AP is “prepared” to face them.

In an unfortunate incident, an assistant professor belonging to Andhra Pradesh was assaulted by a miscreant at JNTU Hyderabad in Kukatpally on Wednesday. Allegedly, the attacker was a youth leader of Telangana. It all started when the assistant professor questioned the security personnel at the University entrance over the cutout placed the campus entrance.

When the security personnel is trying to call on his superior on the matter, in between, a youth leader intervened into the scene, abused the victim and attacked him physically. The assistant professor was Rajasekhar who is native of Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh. He is currently doing his PHD under a professor of JNTU Hyderabad. As the assistant professor try to take the appointment of Governor Narasimhan (chancellor of universities) to report the incident and lodge a complaint, the staff of Raj Bhavan reportedly asked the victim to come on Thursday.

Police has ordered for a probe in the matter. Investigation is likely to reveal whether the victim’s claims were true or not.

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday adjourned to Friday the hearing on bail petition of TDP legislator A. Revanth Reddy in a cash-for-vote case.

The court adjourned the hearing after Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Telangana sought more time to file additional counter to the bail plea along with reports from Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL).

The bail petitions of two other accused Sebastian Harry and Uday Simha will also be taken up for hearing on Friday.

One of the lawyers of Revanth Reddy said the ACB sought time till Monday but the judge directed it to file the additional counter by Friday.

The ACB, in its counter, opposed the bail petitions on the ground that bail at this stage could hamper the investigations into the case as the accused might try to influence the witnesses and tamper with the evidence.

The anti-graft agency also informed the court that the fourth accused Jerusalem Mathaiah is still absconding and hiding in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. The court was told that arrest and questioning of Mathaiah could help the ACB unravel the case.

Meanwhile, Mathaiah’s petition to delete his name from First Information Report (FIR) will also come up for hearing later in the day.

Revanth Reddy, deputy leader of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Telangana state legislative assembly, was arrested by the ACB on May 31 when he was trying to give Rs.50 lakh as bribe to nominated legislator Elvis Stephenson to induce him to vote for TDP-BJP candidate in Telangana state legislative council elections.

Revanth Reddy’s two aides were also arrested in the trap laid by the ACB on a complaint by Stephenson. The entire episode was also recorded on a camera. The FSL is examining the video and audio tapes and the mobile phones of the accused.

Here comes another big news about the note for vote scam that rocked the Telugu States. As per reports the Telangana ACB is heading with all required evidences to issue notices to the accused and most importantly the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.

After the forensic department had assured that it was Chandrababu’s voice on the phone who spoke to the nominated MLA Stephenson, the political trends seems changing. This means that Chandrababu is caught speaking with the MLA. Marking the forensic reports as a strong evidence, the Anti Corruption bureau will be issuing notices to Chandrababu, other private company CEOs and few Rajya Sabha MPs who are facing allegations in this case.

The ACB sternly said that the notices will be given to their family members if the particular person is not available or will stick the notice to their house door if the residence is empty. So, now the ACB is making moves swiftly after a small break last week with working on it slowly and waiting for the forensic report.

On the other hand, the AP government is claiming that it has sure shot evidences regarding phone tapping and so issuing notices to Chandrababu is a big doubt! So, will KCR direct ACB to shock Chandrababu and get booked up in phone tapping? Or will he move with a plan? Let’s see!