1. Hyderabad Man Aids Busting International Kidney Racket
A major international kidney-selling racket was busted by the Rachakonda police with the arrest of three people from Noida and Delhi.
The cops have claimed that at least 40 people from across India were taken to hospitals in different parts of the world to sell their kidneys. The racket came to light after a Hyderabad-based man – who was not given the Rs 20 lakh he was promised after his kidney was extracted in a hospital in Turkey – approached the Rachakonda cops.
Initial investigations have revealed that hospitals in Turkey, Egypt and Sri Lanka were used. Police are also verifying alleged kingpin Amrish Prathap’s links to China, Iran and Vietnam as his passport shows business trips there.
(Source: The Times of India)
2. Actor Mohan Babu Convicted in Cheque Bounce Case
A local court on Tuesday, 2 April, convicted veteran film actor Manchu Mohan Babu in a cheque bounce case and sentenced him to undergo one year simple imprisonment.
The 23rd Special Magistrate of Erramanzil Court also imposed a fine amount of Rs 41.75 lakh on Babu in the case.
YVS Chowdary, who directed the film Saleem starred by Babu’s son Vishnu, filed the case stating that the cheque for Rs 50 lakh issued by Mr Babu towards remuneration was dishonoured.
After hearing the arguments, the magistrate passed the order convicting Babu.
(Source: The Hindu)
3. EVMs for Nizamabad LS Poll to Reach by 4 April: EC
Over 26,000 ballot units for Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, where over 170 farmers are among 185 in the fray, are expected be in place by 4 April, a senior Election Commission of India official said on Tuesday, 2 April.
Umesh Sinha, Senior Deputy Election Commissioner, said 600 engineers have been deployed for First Level Checks (FLC) of the Electronic Voting Machines.
"The ballot units have already been dispatched from the factory. One lot is reaching in the evening. All these machines will be here by tomorrow afternoon...We hope that by tomorrow night all the machines will be there or by latest day after tomorrow morning," Sinha told reporters in a press conference in Hyderabad.
(Source: PTI)
4. Two Women Beaten up for Feeding Dogs
A mother, daughter and the daughter’s friend were beaten up by locals for feeding stray dogs at Diamond Hills Colony in Moula Ali on Monday, 1 April.
When they became aware of the increasing violence against dog feeders, the family approached the police and got an NOC. The family who used to regularly vaccinate and sterilise the dogs were attacked by about 20 people.
However, on Monday, when a few locals were trying to take away the dogs in a van, the daughter Mehreen intervened, and was assaulted. “Locals were picking up the dogs and taking them away. When I asked them to release the dogs, they started abusing me and beating me. One man even touched me inappropriately,” said Mehreen.
“They pushed my mother to the ground and beat her too,” she said.
(Source: The Times of India)
5. TDP Spokesperson in Telangana Joins TRS
In a setback to TDP in Telangana, one of its spokespersons, B N Reddy joined the ruling TRS on Tuesday, 2 April.
Reddy joined TRS in the presence of its working president K T Rama Rao, TRS sources said.
TDP has not fielded candidates in Telangana for the Lok Sabha polls. It has decided, in principle, to support Congress candidates as per the latter's request.
Having suffered large scale migration of its leaders to the ruling TRS in the last few years, TDP found its base substantially eroded in Telangana.
The latest major leader to switch over from TDP to TRS is former MP Nama Nageswara Rao who has been fielded by the TRS in Khammam Lok Sabha constituency. Nageswara Rao had earlier represented Khammam in Lok Sabha on behalf of TDP.
(Source: PTI)