hyderabad: On the identical day that the Supreme Courtroom rejected her plea in opposition to Rajya Sabha nomination, Congress’ Meenakshi Natarajan was shot within the arm in a courtroom in Hyderabad in the identical case that value her.
The nomination of Natarajan, the All India Congress Committee’s Telangana in-charge, to the Rajya Sabha was canceled over non-disclosure of the pending case in opposition to her in a courtroom in Hyderabad. On Friday, the Extra Capital Territory Chief Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom remanded the petition filed by A Srilatha, the petitioner within the case, on jurisdictional grounds.
The choose stated the courtroom wouldn’t entertain the petition as a result of the defendants and the defendants are former or present public officers. The courtroom requested Srilatha to file the same criticism within the acceptable courtroom.
Representing the Congress social gathering, advocate Ravi Shankar Jandhyala stated, “The second, third, fourth and fifth respondents, together with the final secretary, are both MLCs or sitting MLAs. This courtroom has no energy to subject summons to us. The courtroom accepted my argument and agreed to remand the petition.”
Particular courts exist throughout India to listen to solely felony instances involving present and former Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of Legislative Assemblies (MLAs). These courts have been established following the Supreme Courtroom’s route to make sure speedy justice and scale back the criminalization of politics.
The case pertained to a private criticism filed by Srilatha within the Nampally IV Extra Metropolitan Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom in Hyderabad in September 2025.
In a written criticism accessed by ThePrint, Srilatha alleges that Natarajan was offering political patronage to Kumbum Shivakumar Reddy, accusing Srilatha of significant allegations together with sexual misconduct, sexual abuse and loss of life threats.. She alleged that regardless of repeated complaints, Telangana Congress leaders, together with Meenakshi Natarajan, didn’t intervene to revoke Shiva Kumar Reddy’s primary membership.
Shrilatha has named seven Congress leaders in her chargesheet, together with Meenakshi Natarajan, who’s the fourth accused. Different key leaders embrace present Pradesh Congress president Mahesh Kumar Goud (Respondent #3) and Animal Husbandry and Dairy Improvement Minister Vakati Srihari (Respondent #5). Narayanpet MLA Chitten Parnika Reddy can be an accused in the identical case.
Because of non-disclosure of the incident in Hyderabad, the AICC chief misplaced the Rajya Sabha seat from Madhya Pradesh and the reinstated police officer put aside his election affidavit for not mentioning the small print of the incident.
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)
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