TRS MP sentenced to six months for bribing voters

After a long time, an MP was convicted in a bribery case

One of the arrested activists admitted that the MP had bribed voters by reciting poetry

New Delhi: A Telangana court on Saturday sentenced Mehboobabad TRS MP Maloth Kavita to six months in jail. Kavita was sentenced in a case of bribery of voters in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Kavita was also fined Rs 10,000 by a special court hearing the cases of MPs and MLAs. Poetry is the second accused in this whole case. Election officials had lodged a complaint against Kavita, a former Telangana Rashtra Samiti leader, at the Bhadradri district police station.

He was accused of bribing party workers to get people to vote for him. Kavita said she has been granted bail. And in this case he will appeal to the High Court. Earlier, in the same case, the court also sentenced Shaukat Ali, an activist of the accused party, to six months.

That is, both the accused were given the same sentence and fine. Earlier, while the accused Shaukat Ali was being tried in court, he admitted that he had given money from MP Maloth Kavita to impress the voters.

That is, the bribe was given to the voters to get the vote in favor of the MP. However, the amount was not disclosed. The MP is currently serving a six-month sentence in a bribery case.