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Metro India News | hyderabad :

The Special Operations Team (SOT) Bhongir, along with Keesara Law and Order Police, arrested eight individuals for fraudulently selling vacant plots using forged documents in Keesara.

The accused have been identified as Beegudem Aravind (30), Sampangi Suresh (32), Eega Hari Prasad (38), Chekkala Somnath (51), Kotla Nagendra Prasad (45), Mir Mohammad Hussain (32), Yamjala Shekhar (36), and Veramachineni Vanaja (40). Police said the total value of the plots involved is around Rs 5 crore.

The gang targeted vacant, unfenced plots whose owners were either elderly or not residing nearby. They would obtain certified copies and encumbrance certificates (ECs) of such properties, and if no recent transactions were recorded, they forged ownership documents and sold the plots.

Key accused Aravind, Suresh, and Hariprasad—residents of Rampally—led the operation. Police seized a laptop, color printer, scanner, hard drive, pen drive, stamp handle, seven mobile phones, and fake documents linked to five properties.

HRC pulls up Nalgonda Pharmacy College for withholding certificates

Metro India News | hyderabad :

The Telangana State Human Rights Commission (TGHRC), led by Chairperson Justice Shameem Akther, has taken serious note of a complaint lodged by nine B. Pharmacy students from Venkateshwara Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nalgonda.

The students alleged that the college management has unlawfully withheld their original educational certificates, citing pending fee reimbursement as the reason.

In its observation, the Commission stated that such action violates the constitutional and human rights of the students. Exercising its authority under Section 18(c) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, the TGHRC directed the college's Chairman and Principal to immediately return the original certificates and issue Transfer Certificates (TCs) to the affected students.

Additionally, the Commission has summoned both the Chairman and Principal to appear before it in person on September 2, 2025, for further enquiry. Copies of the directive have also been forwarded to the District Collector of Nalgonda and the Telangana Council for Higher Education for immediate action.

Man sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life

The Fast Track Special Court of Medchal Malkajgiri district at Kukatpally has convicted the accused rigorous imprisonment for life and fined an amount of Rs 50,000 and rigorous imprisonment for seven years and fine 10,000 and awarded compensation to the victim of Rs 2 lakh. During the course of investigation, the accused Giridhar Kumar (32), resident of Jagadgirigutta and native of Samasthipur district of Bihar is arrested and produced before the court. Police said a few years back the complainant migrated to Hyderabad from UP state along with his family to eking livelihood and residing at Magdum Nagar by doing private job. On June 26, 2017 about 7pm the accused kidnapped a seven year old boy, while playing at the colony and took him to HMT forest area and committed unnatural sex on him, later he left him in the colony, upon which the victim-boy came to home and informed the same to the father by crying.