A special sessions court in Hyderabad, dealing with cases filed against MPs and MLAs, today sentenced TRS leader and Mahbubabad MP Maloth Kavitha to six months of imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on her after she was convicted of distributing money during a 2019 election campaign.
Reports state that after the verdict was revealed, the MP paid the fine amount of Rs 10,000 which prompted the court to grant her bail. Despite this, sources suggest that she will likely approach a higher court to get the verdict reversed.
The Burgam Pahad police had booked a case against the leader during a 2019 election campaign stating that she had been distributing money to the voters of her constituency, presumably to buy their votes.
The police had booked the case against her after the election flying squad caught an associate of hers, Shaukat Ali, distributing Rs 500 each to voters. He went on to admit his crime in court and said that he had distributed the money to voters after the MP had ordered him to do so.
Though Kavitha had started her political career in 2009 as a Congress MLA, she later went on to join the pink party.
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