The Telangana excessive courtroom on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to query YSR Congress celebration chief and Kadapa parliament member YS Avinash Reddy solely after 4 pm on Tuesday, in reference to the homicide of his uncle and former MP YS Vivekananda Reddy, folks acquainted with the matter mentioned.
A single choose bench of the excessive courtroom comprising Justice Surender Reddy gave the path after listening to the arguments over a petition filed by Avinash Reddy searching for anticipatory bail stating that the CBI was more likely to arrest him within the identify of questioning within the Vivekananda Reddy homicide case.
The CBI issued summons to the MP, hours after arresting his father YS Bhaskar Reddy, who occurs to be uncle of Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Sunday. The central company requested him to look earlier than the investigating officer in Hyderabad for questioning at 3 pm on Monday.
Avinash Reddy, who left Kadapa for Hyderabad together with a big contingent of celebration staff, moved the Telangana excessive courtroom searching for anticipatory bail by shifting a lunch movement petition.
The excessive courtroom, which scheduled the listening to at 2.30 pm, requested the CBI to not query the MP until it disposed of his bail petition. The CBI later despatched a message to Avinash Reddy, asking him to look earlier than it on Tuesday.
In the meantime, Vivekananda Reddy’s daughter Narreddy Sunith Reddyalso impleaded within the case by submitting a separate petition, requesting that her model even be heard earlier than wanting into the bail petition of Avinash Reddy. The excessive courtroom admitted her petition and listed it for Tuesday.
“We will hear each the petitions on Tuesday and cross the orders. In the meantime, the CBI shouldn’t query the MP,” Justice Surender Reddy mentioned.
In his bail petition, a duplicate of which was reviewed by HT, Avinash Reddy mentioned the CBI was making an attempt to repair him and his father based mostly on a confessional assertion by one of many killers – Sheik Dastagiri, who had turned approver for the company.
“There is no such thing as a different proof out there with the CBI, besides the confessional assertion of Dastagiri. It was very clear that the CBI had coerced him to problem a press release towards me and my father,” Avinash Reddy mentioned.
He additional alleged that the CBI had colluded with Vivekananda Reddy’s daughter Sunitha Reddy and his political rivals and was making an attempt to repair him within the case. He attributed Vivekananda Reddy’s homicide to the latter’s illicit relationship with different ladies, apart from monetary disputes along with his family members.
“Until now, I’m not an accused within the case. I used to be solely talked about as a suspect within the chargesheet filed by the CBI in 2021,” he identified, including that it was purely a politically motivated case.
The CBI counsel, nonetheless, mentioned Avinash was intentionally shifting the excessive courtroom for anticipatory bail, every time he was known as for questioning. “We need to query him solely as a part of our investigation,” he mentioned.
He argued that it was Avinash Reddy, who had knowledgeable the police about Vivekananda Reddy’s loss of life stating that it was a coronary heart assault and tried to cowl up the homicide as a pure loss of life. He performed a key position in destroying the important proof within the case,” the CBI counsel argued.
On listening to the arguments on each side, the choose posted the case to Tuesday for additional listening to.
In the meantime, the CBI filed a petition earlier than the particular courtroom in Hyderabad searching for custody of Avinash Reddy’s father YS Bhaskar Reddy, who on Sunday was remanded to judicial custody for 2 weeks. The courtroom will take up the petition on Tuesday.