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HYDERABAD: The CBI claimed in the Telangana high court on Saturday that scores of shell companies controlled by Rajya Sabha member Y Sujana Chowdary had duped banks of Rs 5,000 crore, and that issuing a lookout circular against him was in the interest of the nation, reports Sagar Kumar Mutha. Sujana has not yet been made an accused in the case.
The court was hearing Sujana’s plea challenging the circular. He also sought nod to visit the US on a business trip. The judge, while giving the MP a month to complete his US trip, asked him to report to the authorities before and after it.
HYDERABAD: Equating the 10,000 personnel gearing up to conduct Friday’s municipal polls and the subsequent counting process on May 3 with the valiant British soldiers of the Crimean War, the high court on Thursday made little effort to hide its disappointment with the state election commission, reports Sagar Kumar Mutha.
“At a time when the second Covid wave is sweeping the state, you released the poll schedule. And, most of these areas are now witnessing a high number of positive cases,” the bench said. It asked the SEC and the government to shut liquor shops till May 3. “This is the least you can do, your wrong commands have already driven the staff towards a perilous era. They have no option, but obey your command.”
HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Wednesday allowed Nalgonda district collector, Prashant J Patil, to escape six weeks in jail in a contempt case after he agreed to work with children in an orphanage every weekend. “Spend two hours every weekend with the students for the next six months. Your service will be certified by our principal district judge there,” a bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy told the IAS officer, reports Sagar Kumar Mutha.
Patil, who was Warangal joint collector earlier, along with P Sandhya Rani, then district supply officer, were dragged to court by a rice miller. Following some discrepancies found at the mill, civil supplies officials had registered a case against the miller and stopped his supply of paddy. The miller had approached the high court, which had asked the officials to restart paddy supply.