TRS MLCs fight it out over a seat

Hyderabad: A photo-session on the premises of the Telangana State  Legislative Council has led to a spar between two ruling TRS MLCs on Wednesday.

MLCs Farooq Hussain and Mohd Saleem almost came to the blows with each other over sharing of a seat during the photo-session held on the concluding day of the winter session of the state Legislature.

When the MLCs occupied the seats for a group photo, excise minister T. Padma Rao Goud arrived there. Noticing the minister, Mr Hussain asked Mr Saleem to vacate his seat for the minister and take another seat behind.

This angered Mr Saleem who raised severe objection over Mr Hussain asking him to vacate the seat. This led to heated arguments between the two. At one stage, both the MLCs hurled abuses at each other almost came to the blows. Legislative Council chairman Swamy Goud and other MLCs intervened and pacified the both.

Taxmen to prosecute TRS MLA
A TRS MLA and Raichur-based Navodaya Education Trust chairman Sunki Rajender Reddy, has been prosecuted by the directorate of income-tax (investigation), Karnataka and Goa on the grounds of alleged “tax evasion under Section 276C (1) and 277 of the Income-Tax Act and causing a huge loss of revenue to the Central government,” said an official source.

The prosecution follows the search and seizure operations, which were conducted by the taxmen at the Navodaya Education Trust in December 2015.
During the search, the income-tax officials had reportedly seized '20 crore in cash along with some incriminating documents.

The prosecution against Mr Reddy was launched in November last year before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Raichur and subsequently he got an anticipatory bail the Principal Sessions Court, Raichur.

Speaking to this newspaper, Mr Reddy said, “It is an old case. Taxmen had seized records and money from my education institute located in Raichur. Today I believe they have filed a case before the I-Tax Assessment Officer. After this, they will serve a notice to which I need to reply. Then it will go to Tax tribunal. I am confidant  can able to come out of this.”