Hyderabad: Maganti Sunitha, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) candidate for the Jubilee Hills by-election and widow of the late MLA Maganti Gopinath, is facing controversy over her marital status after Taraq Pradhumna Kosaraju — who claims to be Gopinath’s son from his first marriage — alleged that Sunitha was never legally married to the MLA.

The controversy has erupted just days before the Jubilee Hills by-poll on November 11, which was necessitated after the passing of Maganti Gopinath in June this year.

Taraq has filed a complaint with the Cyberabad police commissioner alleging that Maganti Sunitha and her three children fraudulently obtained a Family Member Certificate (FMC) as the legal heirs of Maganti Gopinath, eventhough MLA’s first marriage with his mother Kosaraju Malini, wa

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