Date:31/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/31/stories/2008073161040500.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam

Nigerian national sent in 15 days’ remand

Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM: A Nigerian national, who was arrested for not having a valid passport and visa, was sent in 15 days’ remand on Wednesday.

Mathew, the accused, put up at a hotel at Dwarakanagar on July 27. On a tip-off, a raid was conducted which revealed that the accused had no passport or visa. “He only had a Xerox copy and that also was tampered. We arrested him under Section 14 of the Foreigners Registration Act and the Passport Act,” said four-town CI M. Srinivasa Rao. The accused was produced in the court on Wednesday. He claimed that he had come to meet a doctor in the city.

Mr. Srinivasa Rao said that it was binding on all lodge owners who let out their rooms to foreigners and even house owners who give their house on rent to foreigners to invariably inform the police of the same.

The police were empowered to invoke the provisions of the Foreigners Registration Act on lodge and house owners who failed to intimate the matter to them.

Lifer

Principal District Judge N. R. L. Nageswara Rao on Wednesday convicted Korra Balaram for the killing of Korra Saddu at Ujjangi in Dumbriguda mandal and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

The prosecution said Balaram and Sitanna attacked Saddu with a crowbar and a knife on November 22, 2002, leading to his death after an altercation over a land dispute. Sitanna died while the case was going on. Gemmali Pandu was sentenced to six-month imprisonment for attacking Korra Bhimanna who tried to intervene. Three others named in the case were acquitted. R.Krishna Kumari was the public prosecutor and the then Araku Cirlce Inspector K.Ramachandra Rao investigated the case.

Warrant against SI

The Railway Magistrate Court in Vijayawada on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against P.V.V. Narasimha Rao, presently working as Sub-Inspector in Crime Control Station, Visakhapatnam, for failing to attend the trial of a theft case.

In-charge Magistrate Ch. Rajagopala Rao issued the arrest warrant and asked the Superintendent of Police of the Government Railway Police, Vijayawada, to execute the warrant.