Telangana high court suspends Danam Nagender’s jail term

HYDERABAD: In a huge relief to former minister Danam Nagender, Justice G Sridevi of the high court on Wednesday suspended the six-month jail sentence given to him by a trial court hearing cases of legislators.
The judge was hearing an appeal filed by the legislator against the order of the trial court. The former minister and current TRS MLA was convicted in a case of abetting an attack on a private person at the Banjara hills PS in 2013.
The judge said that the legislator would continue to be on bail on the same terms and conditions imposed by the trial court, but the sentence would remain suspended till his appeal before the court was disposed of. The case was posted to October 20.