IT raids: Ahead of the assembly elections, the Income Tax officials on Monday conducted searches on the residence of Telangana Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy's relatives in Hyderabad.
The Income Tax sleuths searched the residence of Pradeep, who lives in an apartment in Gachibowli. Pradeep is a close relative of the minsiter. The IT also searched the residences of other relatives of Reddy.
Raid on pharma company
The officials are currently conducting raids at a prominent pharmaceutical company in Hyderabad, with simultaneous searches being carried out at 15 different locations across the city.
The house of the owner of the pharma company and the offices of the staff are being searched. It is said that Kotla Narendra Reddy used to work in marketing at Dr Reddy's Lab.
Indra Reddy is the education minister
Sabitha Indra Reddy is currently the Education Minister in the Telangana government. In 2018, she contested elections from Maheshwaram in Telangana and won despite the TRS wave in the state. However, she later joined KCR's TRS (now BRS). Sabita is once again a candidate from the Maheshwaram seat and will face Congress's Kitchennagari Lakshma Reddy and BJP's Andela Sri Ramulu Yadav.
Congress leader was also raided
Earlier on November 9, the Income Tax Department team had raided the residence of Congress leader Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy in Khammam district of Telangana. Let us tell you that Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy is soon going to contest from the Palair constituency of Khammam district in the state assembly elections to be held on November 30.
