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Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has categorically ruled that if a romantic relationship is pursued under a promise of marriage and later fails, it does not amount to fraud or a criminal offence. The court clarified that for such an act to be considered criminal, there must be clear evidence that the relationship was initiated with a specific, fraudulent intent to deceive the partner about marriage. K Santhosh, a resident of Potyal in Anthargaon Mandal of Peddapalli district, approached the High Court seeking to quash a case registered against him based on a complaint filed by a young woman. The complaint alleged that he had promised to marry her but later failed to fulfil that promise. Justice N Tukaramji recently heard the matter. Representing the petitioner, counsel argued that the case lacked supporting evidence and should be quashed. The counsel also cited previous High Court judgments stating that the breakdown of personal relationships does not constitute a criminal offence. Woman's Allegations Arguing on behalf of the complainant, her counsel submitted that when the petitioner proposed to her in 2018, she initially declined. However, he allegedly pressured her into accepting the proposal by threatening to take his own life. The counsel further stated that after maintaining a relationship for five years, the petitioner refused to marry her when she raised the issue, instead offering monetary compensation.
Himachal Pradesh faced nature's fury. Bridges collapsed in Shimla, Lahaul, and Spiti. Cloudbursts and flash floods caused widespread damage. Over 300 roads closed, disrupting travel. A police post swept away, shops damaged. No casualties reported yet. Orange alert issued for more heavy rain. The state has suffered significant financial losses this monsoon. Many people have died in rain-related incidents. Several bridges were washed away in Shimla and Lahaul and Spiti districts, while over 300 roads, including two national highways, have been closed across Himachal Pradesh following fresh inci ...Read More >
Pulluri Prasad Rao alias Chandranna and Bandi Prakash alias Prabhath surrendered in Hyderabad. Hyderabad: The surrender of two high-ranking CPI (Maoist) members -- Central Committee Member Pilluri Prasad Rao, known by the aliases Chandranna and Somanna, and State Committee Member Bandi Prakash, alias Prabath -- marks a significant victory for security forces and a substantial ideological and structural blow to the Left-Wing Extremists. It also means a critical weakening of their command structu ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: Justice K Lakshman of the Telangana High Court on Friday dismissed two writ petitions seeking an inquiry into the alleged illegal sale of Bhoodan lands in Maheshwaram mandal, Rangareddy district. The first petition, filed by Vadthya Ramulu, sought a Commission of Inquiry to probe the alleged illegal transfer of about nine acres in Survey Nos. 194 and 195 of Nagaram village. The petitioner claimed that Revenue officials, in collusion with private persons, had replaced the names of original owners with others. Justice Lakshman observed that setting up a CoI would serve little purpos ...Read More >
Hyderabad: A day after the Cabinet approved 42 per cent reservations for Backward Classes (BCs) in local bodies, the panchayat raj department initiated the process to amend the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, 2018 on Friday, to pave the way for an ordinance to implement the enhanced quota. The state government plans to issue the prdinance within a week and conduct zilla parishad and mandal parishad elections in August, followed by gram panchayat and municipal elections in September. The Telangana High Court has set a deadline of September 30 for the government to conduct the local body elections ...Read More >
Hyderabad: An assistant engineer in the Panchayat Raj department of Peddapalli sub-division and district was caught by the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for demanding a bribe of Rs 1 lakh on Saturday, July 12. The accused officer, P Jagadesh Babu, serving as an assistant engineer in charge of Kalvasrirampur and Odela mandals, initially demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from the complainant for carrying out official work. According to ACB, the official had demanded a bribe for recording the Cement Concrete (CC) road work carried out by the complainant and forwarding the same to deputy ex ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Torrential rains have left a person dead and four others missing in Kamareddy and Medak districts. Rescue operations are underway on a massive scale as rivers, streams, and irrigation tanks overflowed, submerging colonies, breaching roads and halting transport.A govt doctor lost his life in Kamareddy after a wall collapsed on him. Two men were swept away in Neelakatta stream at Domakonda in the same district, while two others - Bestha Sathyam and Yada Goud of Rajpet village - were carr ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Four people died in Himachal Pradesh as rain continues to wreak havoc in the state, while five were swept away in Rajasthan's Kota at a barrage after a heavy downpour caused the authorities to release water from a reservoir. In Himachal, more than 200 roads are out of bounds for vehicular traffic, a majority of them in Mandi, while a flash flood warning has been issued for 12 districts in Jharkhand. An individual each drowned in Kullu and Kangra districts, one died after being bitten by a snake in Bilaspur, while one was killed after falling from a height, the State Emergency Oper ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana state cabinet, led by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, has approved an ordinance to raise the reservation for Backward Classes (BCs) in local body elections from 29% to 42%, pushing the total quota beyond the 50% ceiling laid down by the Supreme Court. As reported by The Wire, the government's decision comes in the backdrop of a 17-month delay in conducting elections to local bodies and the Union government's prolonged inaction on two Bills passed by the Telangana legislature. These Bills, which propose enhanced BC quotas in education, employment, and local bodies, have ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) India's passenger vehicle sales crossed the one million mark in the April-June quarter (Q1) of 2025-26 with exports registering a double-digit growth, according to data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) on Tuesday. "Passenger Vehicles, comprising utility vehicles and cars, saw their highest ever exports in Q1 of 2025-26 of 2.04 Lakh units, registering a growth of 13.2 per cent over Q1 of 2024-25," according to the SIAM statement. Export growth in this segment was driven by stable demand across most markets, with strong perfo ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Congress on Monday urged all political parties to submit affidavits in the Telangana High Court supporting the state government's decision to provide 42 per cent reservation to the Backward Classes communities in local bodies, saying it was time for them to prove their sincerity on social justice. Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan, Ministers Ponnam Prabhakar and Vakiti Srihari, along with other Congress BC community leaders, said the government had taken every step to implement the enhanced quota and now expected all parties to help overcome legal hurdles to GO 9, ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Monday, July 7, issued notices to several private parties in connection with a petition filed by Congress MLAs challenging the lack of action regarding the allotment and ongoing constructions on 27.18 acres of government land in Survey No. 27 of Serilingampally mandal, Ranga Reddy district. The petitioners -- ruling party MLAs Anirudh Reddy, Yennam Srinivas Reddy, Muralinaik, and Kuchikulla Rajesh Reddy -- filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) questioning the authorities' inaction over the land allotment and subsequent constructions. The bench, compri ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Backward Classes (BCs) community is poised to benefit substantially from the government's decision to implement 42 per cent reservations in the local bodies elections, opening up an estimated 24,000 additional posts across gram panchayats, mandal parishads and zilla parishads, and taking the total to nearly 55,000. This is nearly double of what the community got in the 2019 local body elections held under the BRS regime with 23 per cent reservations. Although the government has not officially announced seat-wise reservation allocations, collectors of all districts have already ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two persons were killed and three others injured in a clash between two groups in Telangana's Peddapalli district on Tuesday. The incident occurred in Suglampalli village of Sultanabad mandal during a meeting called to resolve a dispute between a man and his wife. The elders from both sides were holding a meeting for reconciliation when a group attacked the other with knives. Two died of stab injuries while three others were critically injured. The deceased were identified as Mallesh and Ganesh. The husband's side alleged that relatives of the woman had ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: State BJP president N Ramchander Rao on Thursday slammed the Congress government and Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for failing to address farmers' issues despite completing 19 months in office. Speaking at the Kisan Morcha state office-bearers' meeting at the BJP headquarters in Hyderabad, he accused the state government of neglecting farmers due to its skewed policies. He urged party workers to collaborate with the Kisan Morcha to highlight farmers' grievances and counter the Congress' "anti-farmer" stance. He directed the Morcha members to launch agitations, gather grassroots- ...Read More >
Peddapalli, Aug 3 (UNI) Telangana Irrigation, Food & Civil Supplies Minister Capt N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday declared that the state would oppose Andhra Pradesh's Banakacharla project "at every level," terming it a violation of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act and the 1980 Godavari River Water Agreement. Speaking at a series of programmes in Peddapalli district, where he inaugurated the Ramagundam Lift Irrigation Scheme in Anthargone mandal, Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the Central Water Commission (CWC), the Godavari River Management Board (GRMB), and the Polavaram Project Authority ...Read More >
The decision follows a prolonged legal battle and demands for a fair and impartial investigation. The Supreme Court has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the probe into the 2021 murder of a lawyer couple, Gattu Vaman Rao and PV Nagamani, in the Peddapalli district of Telangana. The decision, delivered by a bench of Justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh, comes after a prolonged legal battle and widespread demands for a fair and impartial investigation. Gattu Vaman Rao ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court division bench of Justices Kunuru Lakshman and Kalasikam Sujana on Friday "set aside" GO 126, dated December 26-2021, allotting 3.7-acre prime land worth crores, located in Plot no.27, Survey no. 83/1, Raidurg village, Serilingampally mandal, RR district to the International Arbitration and Mediation Centre, Hyderabad. Though the court upheld GO 76 dated November 12 sanctioning Rs. 3 crore to meet the day-to-day expenditure of the centre and GO 6, dated March 17, 2022 wherein the Chief Secretary directed all departments and public sector undertakings to ref ...Read More >
MUMBAI: After the transfer of Mahadevi, an elephant belonging to a Jain shrine in Kolhapur, to Vantara, an animal rescue and rehabilitation initiative by the Reliance Foundation in Jamnagar, those who were unwilling to let go staged a march on Sunday. Thousands of locals and leaders from the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Kolhapur marched for 45 km from the shrine to the collector's office, demanding that Mahadevi be brought back, following which CM Devendra Fadnavis said he would hold a meeting on this on Tuesday. Mahadevi, 36, was transferred from the Swastishri Jinsen Bhattarak Pattacharya Ma ...Read More >
The ruling Congress-backed candidates continued their winning streak, securing nearly 2,000 Sarpanch posts in the second phase of the Gram Panchayat elections in Telangana, followed by the main Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supporters with nearly 1,000 posts and BJP-backed candidates with about 300 posts, while others won around 450 posts. The counting process was still under way at the time of reporting. The results of the first phase reflected a similar trend. Congress-backed candida ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana excise department has received 95,137 applications for 2,620 retail liquor shops for the licence period 2025-27, reflecting intense demand across the state.Shamshabad tops the list with 8,536 applications for just 111 shops, the highest in Telangana, followed closely by Saroornagar, which attracted 7,845 applications for 138 shops. Medchal recorded 5,548 applications for 118 shops, highlighting widespread interest in establishing outlets. Across Telangana, each shop avera ...Read More >