Poll code violation by Balayya: Court to take up hearing today

HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad high court on Thursday posted to Friday a plea filed by YSRCP general secretary

K Siva Kumar

seeking action against TDP MLA and actor N

Balakrishna

for allegedly distributing money to voters in the recent

Nandyal

bypoll. The bench of Acting Chief Justice

Ramesh Ranganathan

and

Justice J Uma Devi

sought to know from the petitioner as to how he was aggrieved. We can understand if the contested candidate approached us with such a plea.

The counsel for the petitioner said that he has locus standi to file the plea as a party functionary. Our pleas to the election authorities to take action against the actor yielded no results and hence we approached the court, he said. Upon a query, the counsel for the election commission said that the petitioner can file a police case against the actor too instead of asking the EC to act.