Hyderabad: In a rare example, a member of sitting parliament (MP) has been convicted of voters during the 2019 General Election.
TRS Lok Sabha MP Maloth Kavitha and his colleague was punished by the court session specifically for the MP & MLA case in Nampally.
The judge sentenced two to undergo a six-month imprisonment.
The judge, however, triggered them guarantees to appeal before a higher court.
Kavitha represents the Constituency of Mahabubabad at Lok Sabha.
This is the third case in several special court sessions for the MP & MLA case distributing prison terms to public representatives.
However, this was the first time sitting Lok Sabha MP had been punished and it was also to bribe voters in carrying out the election.
During the general election in 2019, income officials, which were part of the election’s flying squad, had captured MP Shaukat Ali’s aide when he distributed cash to people (500 per head), looking for their voices for Kavitha at the Burgampahad police station.
“Flying troops arrested Ali Red.
During the trial, Ali admitted he had distributed money on his orders,” said the Public Prosecutor G Narayana.
In this case, Ali was crowned as the first accusation and Kavitha as the second defendant.
Judge Ch Vrr Varaprasad, who punished Both under the 171-E (penalty for bribery) IPC, directing the two prisoners to undergo a simple six-month imprisonment and slapped each of the Rs 10,000.
The two were present at the court when the verdict was said by the judge.
The police produced their flying troops and reports As proof during the trial.
When Ali was accused of being tried, he acknowledged that he had distributed the money given by Kavitha to affect voters.
The court of special session, which emerged in March 2018 after the Supreme Court directing the criminal cases against members of parliament and MLA, in the past recently sentenced to BJP MLA Raja Singh D An Trs Mla Danam too and gave him a prison.
Raja Singh was ordered for attacking a police officer at the hurried police station, while Danam Nagender was punished for his aide to attack government officials at the Banjara Hills Police Station.
Watching Trs MP Maloth Kavitha was punished for bribing voters