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Congress charges KCR with political vendetta

Alleges false cases framed or old ones revived against its leaders

- BY MOHAMMAD SIDDIQUE Correspond­ent

Aspate of cases against its leaders have the opposition Congress leaders cry foul against the Telangana Rashtra Samiti government in the state. Party leaders have alleged that the caretaker government was resorting to the vendetta politics by reviving old cases or by framing its leaders in false case.

It started with the arrest of former MLA Jayaprakas­h Reddy alias Jagga Reddy. Then police issued notice to another senior leader A Revanth Reddy and now a case under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act against another former Congress leader Srisailam Goud.

While Jagga Reddy was arrested in connection with an old human traffickin­g case, the police has issued a notice to A Revanth Reddy in connection with the case of alleged irregulari­ties in Jubilee Hills Housing Society.

In the latest developmen­t Jagadgiri police station has booked a case against Srisailam Goud on the complaint of a tribal Ramesh Naik. Naik has alleged that the former MLA had insulted him publicly in the name of his caste identity.

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