HYDERABAD: Vanasthalipuram police arrested a 26-year-old woman for killing her husband with the help of a lover, who is an RTC driver.
The accused are Patlavath Saroja a tailor from Abdullapurmet; B Narsimha, 30, an RTC driver of Devarakonda Depot; and his cousin, B Ramakrishna, 27, a school bus driver.
The victim was, P Prasad Babu, 38, an auto driver from Abdullapurmet. On October 7, the victim’s father lodged a complaint with police. Prasad also used to run chit fund business and due to mismanagement of business, he ended up debt. As pressure started mounting from money lenders, Prasad started staying separately from his wife. During this time, Saroja became close to Narsimha.
On October 6, Narsinha and Ramakrishna came to Prasad’s house offering to finance his business. They made Prasad consume liquor and then strangled him with a towel, Vanasthalipuram police said.

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HYDERABAD: Telangana Congress president and Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy has urged the voters of Huzurnagar not to believe in the promises made by TRS leaders as they are not getting money from the government to take up developmental works in their own constituencies.
Addressing a series of meetings in Mellacheruvu, Nallabandagudem and other places on Tuesday, Uttam said TRS ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs and corporation chairmen were camping in Huzurnagar to mislead and cheat the voters.
"Many TRS MLAs went on record in the assembly complaining about lack of development in their areas and denial of funds. They are not in a position to tour their own constituencies due to poor performance. They will do a vanishing act once the campaign ends," he said.

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HYDERABAD: Finding fault with both the state government and road transport corporation (RTC) workers, the Telangana high court on Tuesday told both sides to come to the negotiating table and end the strike so that people don’t suffer. It also asked the state to be more generous and take a more humane approach towards the workers. "Only then will people remember such rulers fondly," the HC bench told the government.
A bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A Abhishek Reddy told the workers that it could declare the strike as illegal if it continues and gave both sides time till October 18 to amicably resolve the issue.
"It is 10 days. Children are unable to go to school, working women are not able to report to duty, old people are finding it difficult to move. Enough. This suffering of people should stop immediately," the bench said while hearing a public interest plea filed by Osmania University student Subender Singh.
The bench also said the state can’t argue that the striking workers had self-dismissed themselves by continuing the strike. "It should behave like a model employer," the bench said. "And workers, particularly those working in essential services such as RTC, can’t strike work at will. This is an illegal strike. If we declare the strike as illegal, then the ramifications will be bad for workers. It is better that they call off the strike on their own."
The state counsel however said that they had not started termination proceedings.
The bench criticised the state government’s ‘all is well’ argument. "According to your latest RTC affidavit, you have a fleet of nearly 10,000 buses. Even after 10 days of the strike, you are running only 6,000," the bench said. "That means you are unable to run 4,000 buses. It pains us to see your workers taking their lives. We request you to start the process of negotiation immediately," the bench added and asked both advocate general B S Prasad and additional advocate general J Ramachandra Rao to convey this to the state government.
"In times of conflict, people lose tempers and display insubordination. Do not take it seriously," the bench said addressing the state.
The state counsel ruled out the possibility of acceding to the demand of merging the corporation into the state government. "If we agree to this, tomorrow some other corporation workers may seek the same, the state counsel said.
The counsel for the workers, D Prakash Reddy, said the strike was the last resort. "We gave a strike notice a month ago but nothing came of it," he said. "We are waiting for the state to respond. All we have received so far are threats of self-dismissal and serious consequences. Some of our demands are simple, like appointing a regular MD to RTC so that we can approach him, and replacing outdated old buses with new ones."
The bench refused to sail with the argument of the petitioner’s counsel P V Krishnaiah that there are three accidents by new drivers. The judges told him that there were accidents even during normal times. The bench also enquired about the appointment of a negotiator (TRS MP K Keshava Rao) by the state. Prakash Reddy said that the negotiator too was waiting for the state’s nod.

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VIJAYAWADA: A 15-year-old boy died in a private lodge in Governorpet allegedly after being treated by a quack who had claimed through YouTube videos that he had remedies for several ailments as well as a fix to ‘enhance brain’. The quack, Bhumeswara Rao from Guntur, has now been arrested and booked for culpable homicide.
Out of the four children who were treated by the quack, Haranath, a class 10 student from Kadapa, died while three others have now been admitted to Andhra Hospital. Police said it was unclear whether Haranath died due to the treatment given by Rao or due to some other ailment as he had been complaining of stomach pain.
According to ACP (South Zone) N Surya Chandra Rao, 11 families from Bengaluru, Bellary, Kadapa and parts of Telangana had brought their children to ‘enhance their brains’ to Gangotri lodge in the city where Rao had been offering treatment for the last four days. The families had known about Rao through videos posted by him on YouTube.
Police said Haranath was brought to the lodge by his parents after he complained of stomach pain and was not able to focus on studies.
The ACP said the accused made the kids take a pill he prescribed every one hour and asked them to stay in the lodge for 15 days. A day later, Haranath collapsed while sitting in a chair. When the parents told Rao that their son was dead, he denied it and continued to massage the body.
The body has now been sent to Vijayawada Government General Hospital for post-mortem. According to police, Rao neither has a degree in naturopathy nor held any qualification to provide treatment. The police have collected statements from parents and guardians of the children.

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