Kakinada, April 21st: Additional district sessions judge, Mr. B. Nagamaruti Sarma sustained injuries when a person throw acid on him while he was on the bench and conducting proceedings. The incident took place at the local court complex on Tuesday. Police identified accused as Ake Suryanarayana (59) and took him into custody. Mean while judge was shifted to Government general hospital for treatment where the doctors said that the condition of the Mr. Sarma was fine and nothing to worry about him as the acid thrown by the accused was a diluted one.
According to the sources, Ake Suryanarayana is a native of V.K Rayapuram in Samarlakota Mandal of East Godavari District. More to the surprise he was contesting as independent candidate for the Kakinada Lok Sabha seat and the Peddapuram Assembly constituency in the ensuing elections. He was booked by the police for selling diwali crackers in 2007. Keeping grudge on the judge for not giving favor verdict in his case, the accused threw acid on the him.
The accused was charged with cases under IPC 332 and 307 sections. Meanwhile several organizations condemned the acid attack on the judge and sought stringent action on the accused. Students of the local Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Law also condemned the attack.
Kakinada, April 21st: District election authorities have set up help desks at various places in the district for the benefit of the voters to provide them with necessary information about the Phase II polls scheduled to be held on April 23. As a measure to avoid the disappointment of the voters on ...
Kakinada, April 21st: Actor turned politician and Praja Rajyam Party president, Mr. Chiranjeevi exuded confidence of his party coming to power in the ensuing elections. Addressing the huge turnout here on Tuesday he came down heavily on the both congress and TD governments. He blamed both the previ...
Hyderabad, April 21st: Board of Intermediate Education has announced the dates for the intermediate advanced supplementary exams on Tuesday. The exams will be held from May 20 to May 28. In a press statement the secretary of IPE, Mr. G. Balaramaiah said that the first year exams will be held everyd...
Kakinada, April 21st: Nearly 11 lakh expenditure was recovered by the election authorities from various political parties for violation of poll code. The model code of conduct came into force from April 3, soon after the issue of poll notification by the election commission. Following the pol...
Kakinada, April 23rd: For the second phase of elections organized in the district on April 23, nearly 70% of the votes were polled on the day in both East and West Godavari districts. From the early hours of the day serpentine queues were seen at many of the polling centers, probably to avoid the ...
Kakinada, April 23rd: Two polling officers who were on duty at Polamuru polling station in Anaparthy Assembly segment were suspended from duty by District Election Officer and district collector, Mr. Gopala Krishna Dwevedi on Thursday. The officers were suspended on the charges of forcing an aged v...
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