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Former YSRCP MLA Arrested in Kidnapping and Intimidation Case
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|February 14, 2025
Former MLA and YSRCP leader Vallabhaneni Vamsi was arrested in Hyderabad on Wednesday by the Andhra Pradesh Police in connection with an attack on the TDP office in Gannavaram and shifted to Vijayawada.
YSRCP slammed his arrest alleging that the case was false and that Chandrababu Naidu-led coalition government was indulging in vendetta politics against Opposition leaders.
The former Gannavaram MLA, who had secured anticipatory bail, was picked up in the morning from a posh apartment complex in the Raidurgam area and then taken to Vijayawada. He had allegedly threatened the complainant M Satyavardhan to withdraw the complaint against him.
This story is from the February 14, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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