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Members of the Andhra Pradesh High Court Committee on Juvenile Justice including Justice Kongara Vijayalakshmi, Justice G. Ramakrishna Prasad and Justice V. Sujatha released posters on child abuse awareness as part of a campaign titled ‘STOP Child Sexual Abuse’ at the High Court on Tuesday. The committee also approved an eight-minute video that educates children on topics like ‘Good Touch, Bad Touch’ and helpline numbers such as 1098, 100 and 101. The posters and the awareness video were made by the NTR district administration. Commissioner of Police Kanthi Rana Tata and officials of the Women Development and Child Welfare Department were present. Mr. Dilli Rao said that the committee has suggested displaying the posters in all classrooms of private, government and aided schools, special children's homes, Anganwadi centres, colleges, ward and village secretariats, panchayat offices, malls, exhibitions, bus stops, hostels as well as on school buses. Also, the committee suggested … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh: HC Committee on Juvenile Justice releases posters, video on child abuse awareness

The officials of the Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB) registered 583 cases, including 25 against the ganja smugglers in Andhra Pradesh, in the last week and arrested 746 people including those involved in arrack and ganja cases. The SEB personnel also seized 3,239 litres of illicitly distilled (ID) liquor, destroyed 23,760 litres of fermented jaggery wash and 2,172 litres of non-duty paid liquor (NDPL) during the period. During the drive, the police seized 2,796 kg ganja and arrested 79 people on charges of peddling. As many as 395 ID liquor manufacturers and ganja smugglers were bound over, said SEB Commissioner Ravi Shankar Ayyanar. The PD Act has been involved against four habitual offenders, including a woman in Palnadu and Bapatla districts, said SEB Director A. Ramesh Reddy. … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh: 3,239 litre ID liquor, 2,796 kg ganja seized in a week

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) wrote to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) urging it to direct the Government of Andhra Pradesh to provide financial compensation to the family of a man who was found dead under suspicious circumstances on the outskirts of Kandamuru village in Nellore district on June 19. TDP Polit Bureau member Varla Ramaiah in his letter, wrote that the Podalakuru police had picked up a man named Narayana on charges of stealing electric wires from a sugar factory. The police allegedly assaulted Narayana while he was in their custody, Mr. Ramaiah alleged. After being released from custody, Narayana went missing from home and was found hanging from a tree on June 19. His family members alleged that he had ended his life unable to bear the humiliation at the hands of the police. The TDP leader alleged that the assault was a gross violation of basic human rights and Constitutional rights. “There were visible marks of violence on his body,” Mr. Ramaiah wrote in … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh: TDP writes to NHRC over suspicious death of man in Nellore village

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh on Monday during which he will launch the year-long 125th birth anniversary celebration of legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju. He will also inaugurate Digital India Week 2022 in Gandhinagar on Monday, a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said. At around 11 AM on July 4, the prime minister will launch the year-long 125th birth anniversary celebration of legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju in Bhimavaram, the PMO said. Thereafter, at around 4:30 PM, he will inaugurate the Digital India Week 2022 in Gandhinagar, it said. As part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the government is committed to giving due recognition to the contribution of freedom fighters and making people across the country aware of them, the statement said. As part of that endeavour, Prime Minister Modi will launch the year-long 125th birth anniversary celebration of the legendary freedom fighter, Alluri … [Read more...] about PM Modi to Visit Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh, Gandhinagar in Gujarat on July 4

Justice C. Manavendranath Roy of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has dismissed a house motion petition filed by Narsapuram MP K. Raghu Ramakrishna Raju seeking permission to land in a helicopter at SRKR Engineering College or Delhi Public School, Bhimavaram, at 9 a.m. on July 4 in order to participate in the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of freedom fighter Alluri Sitharama Raju in which Prime Minister is taking part. Mr. Ramakrishna Raju sought a direction to West Godavari district Collector and Superintendent of Police to allow his arrival in a chopper, expressing an apprehension that some fringe elements, who owed their allegiance to people at the helm of affairs in the State government, might disturb his travel plan (if he came by road). Special government pleader C. Sumon appeared for the District Collector, government pleader Y.N. Vivekananda for the SP, and government pleader (home) for the Chief Secretary. They brought to the court’s notice the security arrangements … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh: HC dismisses MP’s plea to reach Bhimavaram by chopper

The Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) saved 281 children in Andhra Pradesh in one month from the work premises where they were allegedly doing forced labour. BBA State coordinator B. Chandra Sekhar Rao at a press conference on Saturday said these children (below 18 years) were rescued from various locations in Andhra Pradesh in June. The BBA conducted raids at 216 different places across the country and rescued 1,623 children during that time. In Andhra Pradesh, the district task force teams consisting of officials from labour, child and women welfare, education, factories, police departments, the railways, and Childline-1098 conducted 59 raids during the 30-day period. The BBA State coordinator said that Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi had established Bachpan Bachao Andolan which had consistently ensured the safety of children during the pandemic and rescued scores of children forced into child labour. As part of its continuous and protracted struggle to eliminate child labour … [Read more...] about 281 child labourers rescued in Andhra Pradesh in June: BBA

The stage is set for the conduct of the byelection to the Atmakur Assembly seat in Nellore district on June 23. Though 14 candidates are in the fray, the contest is likely to be mainly between YSRCP candidate Mekapati Vikram Reddy and BJP contestant G. Bharat Kumar Yadav. The byelection is caused by the demise of two-time MLA and Information Technology Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy. The main Opposition, the TDP, is not contesting the byelection in keeping with a convention set in the past to facilitate the victory of a member from the deceased MLA’s family. The byelection will be a litmus test for the YSRCP, which in 2019 had won all the 10 Assembly seats in Nellore district. A host of Ministers have campaigned for the party in a bid to retain the constituency held by the deceased Minister twice in 2014 and 2019. The BJP, which is striving to emerge as an alternative to the ruling party in the 2024 elections, has left no stone unturned to put up an impressive performance by … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh: Arrangements in place for Atmakur byelection on June 23

Tension prevailed as the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) activists on June 24 staged a dharna in front of the II-Town police station in Chittoor, seeking action against a police officer for allegedly prompting his driver to hit former Mayor Katari Hemalatha with the office vehicle during a protest on June 23 midnight. Ms. Hemalatha, who sustained injuries on her leg, is undergoing treatment at the District Hospital. The demonstration saw the TDP activists and the police personnel exchanging heated arguments and jostling with each other. Additional forces were deployed to diffuse the tension. The protest on June 23 midnight came as a retort to the police search at the house of a TDP supporter on charges of storing ganja. Around 11 p.m. on June 23, a team led by II-Town police station Circle Inspector P. Yatheendra took a youth into custody, acting on a tip-off that he was making a deal with ganja smugglers. Later, the police reached Obanapalle locality to arrest another youth and … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh: TDP activists, police exchange heated arguments in Chittoor

Vizianagaram Deputy Transport Commissioner Ch. Sridevi said that the department was giving utmost priority to minimise road accidents. She said that they had identified around 60 accident-prone locations by conducting joint inspections along with the Police Department in various towns and mandals of the district. Speaking to The Hindu , she said that steps were being taken to prevent road accidents in those places. According to her, Chintalapalem-Mangalampalem of Kothavalasa mandal, Makkuva Junction in Bobbili-Parvatipuram Road, Pogiri village junction of Rajam, Global School area of Gujjingavalasa and other areas were identified as accident-prone areas. Cautionary boards, signboards, speed breakers, barriers, signal lights, school zone boards, road marking and other steps are required to be taken in those areas. “We are taking the help of Panchayatraj, Roads and Buildings and other departments to take necessary steps in those accident-prone areas. The defects in road … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh: 60 accident-prone areas identified in Vizianagaram district, says Deputy Transport Commissioner

Many leaders of the Left parties including CPI(M) Srikakulam district secretary D. Govinda Rao and city convener T. Tirupati Rao were taken into preventive custody ahead of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s visit to Srikakulam district on Monday. Describing it as ‘misuse of power’ by the Police Department, Mr. Govinda Rao said that they were taken into custody even as they wanted to submit a memorandum to the Chief Minister over the pressing issues pertaining to the district. The police arrested many leaders of the Left parties on Sunday night. Speaking to media, Mr. Govinda Rao demanded that the government must pay the ‘legitimate compensation’ to the families displaced by the Phase-II of Vamsadhara project. “The Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) should launch measures for the welfare tribal people. The government should release funds for reconstruction of the K.R. Stadium and more facilities should be created in the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences,” … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh: Left party leaders taken into custody ahead of CM’s Srikakulam tour