Maloth Kavitha can be transferring to Telangana excessive court docket towards her conviction within the Mahbubabad cash-for-votes case
The incident first got here to the fore when throughout 2019, income officers nabbed the MP’s aide Shaukat Ali whereas he was distributing Rs. 500 to voters in search of
In a first, a sitting MP belonging to TRS and her affiliate have been convicted of bribing voters in the course of the 2019 common elections.
TRS Lok Sabha MP Maloth Kavitha and her affiliate have been convicted by a particular classes court docket at Nampally and sentenced to six months of imprisonment for giving bribes to receive votes in the course of the 2019 common elections. A advantageous of Rs 10,000 was additionally imposed. The accused have been nonetheless granted bail to file an attraction earlier than a increased court docket.
It has additionally come to mild that Maloth Kavitha can be transferring to Telangana excessive court docket towards her conviction within the Mahbubabad cash-for-votes case.
The incident first got here to the fore when throughout 2019, income officers nabbed the MP’s aide Shaukat Ali whereas he was distributing Rs. 500 to voters in search of their votes in favor of Kavitha within the Burgampahad police station.
Shaukat Ali was caught red-handed by the police and named as first accused within the case pertaining to bribing whereas Kavitha was named the second accused.
Police produced officers of the flying squad and their studies as proof in the course of the trial. When questioned, Ali additionally confessed to committing the crime and claimed that he had distributed cash given to him by Kavitha.
Notably, this isn’t the primary occasion when an MP has been sentenced by the particular classes court docket for committing crimes. Earlier BJP MLA Raja Singh and TRS MLA Danam Nagender have been awarded jail phrases as effectively. Raja Singh was booked for assaulting a police officer on the Bolarum police station, whereas Danam Nagender was convicted for egging on his aide to assault a authorities official on the Banjara Hills police station.
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