Cops alert EC about Maoist trouble in 13 constituencies

may complete by 4 pm.”

Notices were issued to Telangana Rashtra Samithi for conducting meetings at Pragathi Bhavan, but a reply is yet to be received, he said.

“Whoever has received notices should respond, failing which a report will be given to the Chief Election Commissioner. It is not good for political parties to complain against each other. Notices have been given to the DGPs of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in connection with the issue of Andhra Pradesh intelligence officials caught at Jagityal. Necessary action will be taken in that issue,” said the CEO.

He also said the district collectors, district election officers and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Commissioner will take action against those causing disturbances and obstruction to any public election meeting.

“Several complaints have been received about the disturbance of public meetings. Causing obstruction to a public meeting may lead to arrests by a police officer without any warrant. The arrested will be liable for punishment up to six months or with a fine up to `2,000 or both. The DEOs may also invoke other relevant rules and provisions of IPC and CrPC, and others to see that political meetings are held peacefully in the period leading up to the polls,” the EC said. The Hyderabad HC on Tuesday agreed to hear the PIL on November 6 which was moved seeking a CBI probe into an attempt to kill YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam Airport.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice S.V. Bhatt was dealing with the PIL by Mr Anil Kumar Borrugadda, a resident of Guntur, and another seeking a CBI probe and also to declare the action of the authorities in not conducting security checks properly at airports in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state as illegal.

When this case come up, the counsel for the petitioners urged the court to adjourn the same to next week.