Hyderabad: In a relief to BRS working president and former minister KT Rama Rao , a Hyderabad court on Wednesday restrained Congress MLCs Balmoor Venkat and Addanki Dayakar from making further allegedly defamatory statements against him in connection with issues raised in a ₹10 crore defamation suit filed by him.
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