Ex-minister Shankar convicted in 2 cases

Hyderabad: A former minister, P Shankar Rao, was convicted in two different criminal cases by MLA and MP Special Court on Wednesday. The judge awarded him punishment to pay a penalty of 3,500 for both the offences. In the first case, a person identified as N Pandu Yadav lodged a complaint against Shankar Rao on November 3, 2015, that the latter along with his followers

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trespassed into his agriculture land at Chetanpally village in Shadnagar. The complainant said that Shankar Rao threatened him to register the land on his daughter’s name and threatened dire consequences. The victim was also beaten up.The court, after considering the oral witnesses of the victim and others, who were present at the scene, convicted Shankar Rao under Section 447 (punishment for criminal trespass), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of IPC. The court directed the former minister to pay a total of Rs 1,500 fine.Similarly, in an another case registered on November 16, 2015, a complainant Sridevi claimed that Shankar Rao came up to her in search of her husband. When she said that he was not at home, Shankar Rao beat her and hurled abuses. The accused Shankar Rao was also convicted under Sections 448 (house-trespass), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of IPC and was awarded a fine of 2,000. This will be the 13th case since October 2020, where a public representative was convicted, out of the 143 cases which were taken up before the court against the public representatives by police.