Sanghi firm seized for Rs 2,000cr default

Bank officials on Saturday seized the premises of Sanghi Polyesters Ltd at Sanghinagar in Hayathnagar mandal of Ranga Reddy district for failing to repay loans. According to officials, Sanghi Polyesters, part of the Sanghi Group promoted by brothers Girish Sanghi and Ravi Sanghi, had failed to repay loans worth about Rs 2,000 crore to 12 banks, including Allahabad Bank, the major lender.

As the employees stepped up the agitation, the police forcibly took them into custody and shifted them to nearby police stations. The leaders of the Sanghi Employees Union had vowed not to move out of the premises until they were paid Rs 28 crore due to them towards 14 month salaries. The police initially tried to convince them to settle the issue in court.

SPL which is into manufacturing Polyester Filament Yarn is part of the Sanghi Group being promoted by Sanghi brothers. Meanwhile, CITU flayed the attack on the factory workers. “The company was shut down illegally. It’s not right to attack employees who had been staging protests for the last 11 months, seeking an assurance with regards to payment of dues and other entitlements,” CITU leaders said. They said the management, bankers and police had conspired to cheat the w
The premises were seized following orders of the Ranga Reddy district metropolitan civil court at L.B. Nagar. “Bank officials seized the premises. We only provided protection,” said Vanasthalipuram ACP B. Srinivas Reddy. Around 600 cops from police stations including Ibrahimpatnam, Hayathnagar, Vanasthalipuram and L.B. Nagar were deployed at the site.

Company shutdown was illegal: Employee union

Bank officials had approached the court after their efforts to auction the premises of Sanghi Polyesters Ltd at Sanghinagar had met with resistance from the company’s employees. However, Saturday’s operation also did not go smoothly as about 280 employees of Sanghi Polyesters obstructed the bank staff resulting in a scuffle.

Girl dies in slum inferno in Hyderabad

                                                               

HYDERABAD: A nine-year-old girl died and five others suffered burns in a major fire that ravaged nearly 500 hutments at Sainagar of LB Nagar on Saturday afternoon.

One of the injured, Srinivas (22), suffered severe burns and is said to be in a critical condition. Three others, who were rushed to nearby private hospitals, complained of suffocation and minor injuries. One of them, however, refused to be treated, EMRI sources said.

According to sources, the victims were given shelter at the nearby Shiva function hall.

While fire officials present at the site said that the actual cause of fire was yet to be ascertained, preliminary investigations hinted at a cylinder leak. Some even claimed that the fire started due to a short-circuit.

"Investigations are on and we will soon know the actual cause," Ranga Reddy district fire officer P Mohan Reddy said. Fire tenders were sent from Secunderabad, Moula Ali, Malakpet, Hayatnagar, Gowliguda, Musheerabad and Malkajgiri. Post the operation, two fire tenders were stationed at the site in case of any emergency.

A case under section 174 (Suspicious death) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) was registered at the LB Nagar police station following the incident.
At around 3 pm, a fire broke out in the Sainagar hutments. With people running helter-skelter, nine-year-old M Sandhya, a Standard IV student of a private school in Musheerabad, ran into her dwelling and bolted the door from inside. Within minutes, the leaping flames enveloped the hut. She used to stay with her relatives and attend school. The young student went home for Holi, but the holiday ended on a tragic note.

Apart from claiming a life, the fire gutted nearly 500 hutments which came up on government land. Not just their homes, the close to 700 workers, who lived in the area, lost their belongings, including vessels, beddings and other household things, in the mishap.

Apart from Ranga Reddy collector V Seshadri, other local leaders visited the site. The district administration announced Rs 1.5 lakh ex gratia for the victim's family and Rs 8,000 for people rendered homeless.

Hyderabad:13-yr-old boy kidnapped

HYDERABAD: A Class VII student, who left home on Friday evening for watching a movie, was allegedly kidnapped for ransom. The kidnappers reportedly demanded a ransom of Rs one lakh from the boy's parents, who stay at NGOs' Colony in Vanasthalipuram, on Friday night.

The Cyberabad police said G Manikanta,13, a student of Vikas Public School in Vanasthalipuram, told his parents that he was going to watch the movie 'Ishq'. "He left the house at around 6 pm on Friday but did not return. His parents approached the police and lodged a missing complaint. A few minutes after leaving the police station, Manikanta's father Ramesh got a ransom call on his mobile from an unidentified person demanding Rs one lakh," Vanasthalipuram inspector B Ravinder said.

Police said the miscreants called up Ramesh at 9 pm asking him to come down to the Secunderabad railway station and deliver Rs one lakh cash. "The second call was made at 11 pm. The miscreants used different coin-box public telephones to contact Ramesh," police said.

A case was registered under section 364 (Kidnap) of the IPC.

Lagadapati commissions survey on bypolls

                                                                   

At a press conference held at Nellore Press Club here on Saturday, Mr. Rajagopal said the Congress government either at the Centre or in the State had nothing to do with the inclusion of YSR's name in the FIR filed by the CBI in the illegal assets case of YSR Congress Party president Jaganmohan Reddy. It would not be proper to attribute motives in this case, as the CBI investigation began only at the instance of the High Court based on complaints of some individual leaders, he added. Mr. Rajagopal dismissed the allegation that the Congress was meting out a raw deal to the YSR family.

 

Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal is known for springing surprises with his secretive election surveys. He is again getting another survey being carried out on the present by-election in the seven Assembly segments, one in coastal Andhra and six in Telangana region.

When asked about the trends as per his survey, Mr. Rajagopal said that he would not comment on this right now but indicated that his survey results would be given out on the evening of March 18, the day of polling.

Congress will bite dust, say YSRCP leaders

                                                                                          

YSRCP Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, the YSR Congress leaders charged the Congress and TDP of joining hands together to stop the political rise of Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, which is impossible with people of all sections giving their full support to YSR's son. Mr. Prabhakar took objection to the inclusion of YSR's name in the FIR filed by the CBI in the Jaganmohan Reddy assets case and said the Congress party would pay a heavy price for this. He deplored that Congress seemed to have forgotten the fact that YSR breathed new lease of life into the Congress and brought the party back to power in 2004 and ensured its repeat victory in 2009 in the State.

YSR Congress Party senior leader and MLC Jupudi Prabhakar and former Minister M. Mareppa asserted that their party candidate Nallapureddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy will win Kovur by-poll with a huge majority.

Telugu Desam complained on dances at meet

Some women members of the group danced to the recent popular songs on the occasion. Taking strong objection to the dances, TD politburo member Yarrannaidu said that they will complain to EC about the indecent dances.

organised by the Congress on Friday as obscene and against election code, the Telugu desam (TD) has decided to submit a complaint to the Election Commission.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy had participated in the public meeting held at North Rajup-alem, 15 kms from Nellore on Friday as part of campaign for Congress nominee for Kovur byelection. Congress leaders hired the orchestra group to entertain the gathering and ke-ep them engaged till the ar-rival of the Chief Minister.


Former minister Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu has expressed confidence in victory to TD nominee Somireddy Chandramo-han Reddy at Kovur while referring to TD vote share in the segment since 1993. He alleged that CM Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy and YSRC president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy are involved in a war for CM seat and it will only benefit the TD.

Speaking to reporters at NTR Bhavan here on Saturday, he blamed the Chief Minister for allowing such programmes in public meetings. He alleged that CM also tried to lure the voters by assuring development programmes in Kovur segment.

Mr Kotamreddy Srinivasulu Reddy said that Jagan campaign has failed to evoke any response in Kovur segment contrary to his expectations. He has also alleged that Congress leaders have mobilised crowds to CM public meeting from areas other than Kovur Assembly segment.