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Ex minister to pay back 5 years salary
The Hyderabad high court directed Andhra Pradesh officials to recover all emoluments paid to former forest minister Satrucharla Vijayarama Raju for contesting and winning election from an ST reserved constituency by faking his caste.
The AP assembly secretary is now required to recover the full amount paid to Vijayarama Raju during his tenure as MLA of Nagur constituency in Vizianagaram district from 1999 to 2004. Referring to the petition filed by N Jayaraju, who said that the minister was a kshatriya but not SC, the judge pronounced the order.
"Though Satrucharla Vijayarama Raju was claiming that he belongs to Konda Dora community that falls under the ST category, the claim was declared false, by both the high court and the Supreme Court," he said. However, the judge declined to entertain the petitioner's plea to prosecute the ex-minister.
