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Hyderabad: In 2025, a former corporator from Hyderabad, a woman leader of the Congress party, filed a private complaint in a metropolitan magistrate’s court against seven leaders of the party, including Meenakshi Natarajan. She alleged that these leaders had failed to act on her representation seeking action against another party leader who had allegedly sexually harassed her and threatened her with her life.

The corporator, who represented Tarnaka from 2002 to 2007, was earlier with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) where she held the position of joint secretary from 2007 to 2010. She also alleged in her complaint that the Congress leader – Kumbham Shiva Kumar Reddy, from Kumarpet – had once tried to set her house in Tarnaka on fire.

The court had issued summons in the case and asked all those whom the corporator had complained against to appear in court. Accordingly, Natarajan and all the other Congress leaders the corporator had named filed counter affidavits. Natarajan’s affidavit was prepared by her law firm and it was submitted to the court in October last year, saying her name was added to it with malafide intent.

It is this matter that Natarajan had not mentioned in her election affidavit, submitted to the........

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