Kothapalli Geetha, a former MP, was arrested by CBI in PNB cheating case on September 14. The former YSRCP lawmaker was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as her association with a bank defrauding case was discovered, according to officials. Back in June 2015, a charge sheet was filed against Geetha and her husband, who is the MD of Visweswara Infrastructure for, as alleged, defrauding Punjab National Bank (PNB) of Hyderabad up to an amount of Rs 42 crore.

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Who is Kothapalli Geetha?

Kothapalli Geetha, born on February 4, 1971, is
an India politician who used to be a Member of Parliament from Araku Lok Sabha
constituency, Andhra Pradesh. This constituency is one of the 25 constituencies
of Andhra Pradesh formed as a reserved constituency of Scheduled Tribes in
accordance with the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies
Order (2008). 

Personal Life

Geetha was born in Thimmapuram, Andhra Pradesh. Her parents are Kothapalli Jacob and Lizzamma. In August 1989, she got married to P.R. Koteswara Rao with whom she has two children.

Political
Life

Being a candidate of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party
(YSRCP), Geetha won the reserved Scheduled Tribe (ST) seat in the Indian
general election of 2014. She was in office from May 16, 2014 to May 23. 2019. 

Geetha led the beginning of the Jana Jagruti
Party in 2018 and in 2019 she became a part of the Telugu Desam Party. 

The objective with which she started the Jana
Jagruti Party was to challenge the dynamics of the state’s caste politics. In
June 2019 she got associated with the BJP.

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Lawsuit

 Geetha and her husband have been under the eye of
law for defrauding a branch of PNB in Hyderabad in 2015.

Apart from this, in 2016, a complaint was lodged against Kothapalli Geetha on account of her not being a part of the Scheduled Tribes (ST) community but contesting the 2014 general elections in a reserved category for the ST community and finally securing the seat by winning the election.