Court list is public; verdict isn’t
Two Sircilla election petitions against K.T. Rama Rao exist on the High Court record. A report says they were dismissed on August 4 — but the judgment isn’t on the court site yet.
The petitions appear on the cause list; the orders were not available in the court material reviewed.
Two election petitions challenging K.T. Rama Rao’s 2023 Sircilla win are real cases, on the Telangana High Court’s own cause lists as EP/27/2024 (Kondam Karuna Mahender Reddy v K.T.R.) and EP/28/2024 (Lagishetti Srinivas v K.T.R.), before Justice Namavarapu Rajeshwar Rao. That part is on the record.
A report published early on August 5 says the court dismissed both petitions on Tuesday, August 4, and summarises the reasoning: no election can be overturned on speculation, strong evidence is required, and alleged non‑disclosure tied to a son’s land purchases doesn’t by itself prove corrupt practice. That summary is the report’s account; the High Court’s final judgment or order isn’t available in the court material we reviewed.
The petitions, per a June 2024 report, targeted alleged omissions in KTR’s affidavit — specifically whether his son should have been listed as a dependent and whether land purchases in the son’s name were disclosed. Those are the petitioners’ allegations, not findings.
The 2023 tally is not in dispute: KTR polled 89,244 votes to Congress’s K.K. Mahender Reddy’s 59,557 in Sircilla on November 30, 2023. The BJP and TDP were spectators in Sircilla; the Congress runner‑up then went to court. If the judgment says what the report claims, Delhi’s franchises will need more than innuendo next time — and they can start by putting the order on the record.