Labourer who threw stone at Jagan booked for attempt to murder
The NTR Commissionerate police on Thursday arrested a daily wage labourer who allegedly hurled a stone at Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The police are trying to nd out whether any other person was involved in the incident.
A resident of Vaddera Colony, the labourer, Vemula Satish, hurled the stone at the Chief Minister while he was participating in a ‘Memantha Siddham’ election campaign in Ajitsingh Nagar on April 13.
Mr. Reddy and former Minister and MLA Vellampalli Srinivas suered injuries in the attack. The Chief Minister was seen with a bleeding injury on his forehead after the incident. Both he and Mr. Srinivas underwent treatment at Government General Hospital, Vijayawada, on the same night.
Based on the complaint lodged by the MLA, the Ajitsingh Nagar police registered a case under Section 307 of the IPC (attempt to murder) and took up the investigation.
The police, who questioned about 70 suspects in the case, zeroed in on Satish and arrested him.
“The accused who attacked the Chief Minister has been arrested. We will produce him in court. We are trying to nd out the motive behind the attack,” the police said.
The Election Commission of India (EC) on Thursday told the Supreme Court that statements about four electronic voting machines (EVMs) erroneously logged in votes in favour of the BJP during mock polls held in Kerala were plainly false.
The attention of a Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta was drawn to the reports by advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for petitioner Association for Democratic Reforms. Mr. Bhushan said the four EVMs had reportedly malfunctioned in the mock polls held in Kasaragod district of Kerala on April 17.
The Bench had asked senior advocate Maninder
Singh, appearing for the EC, to “check it up”.
When the court re-assembled at 2 p.m., a senior EC o cial, Nitesh Kumar Vyas, informed the court that the “news reports were false”.
“We have veried the allegation from the District Collector and it appears that they are false. We will submit a detailed report to the court,” he submitted.
Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for another petitioner, Arun Kumar Agarwal, said they had merely alerted the court to the media reports. Their intentions were not adversarial.