SC will hear YSRCP MP’s request for bail revocation in murder case
On Tuesday, June 13, the Supreme Court will hear Dr. Suneetha Narreddy’s request to overturn the anticipatory bail that the Telangana High Court had given to Y S Avinash Reddy, a Lok Sabha representative for the YSR Congress Party, on May 31, 2023.
The late Y S Vivekanand Reddy’s daughter is Dr. Suneetha Narreddy. Vivekanand Reddy was the brother of the late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and the uncle of the current chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The high court had granted Avinash Reddy anticipatory bail, and a vacation bench of Justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice Rajesh Bindal asked senior attorney Sidharth Luthra whether he was attempting to have that bail revoked. The issue was scheduled for hearing on June 13.
For the petitioner Suneetha Narreddy, who was challenging the Telangana High Court judgement issued on May 31 granted anticipatory bail to Avinash Reddy, senior attorney Sidharth Luthra appeared.
Senior attorney Luthra informed the vacation bench that Avinesh Reddy was identified as the main suspect in her father’s murder (Suneetha Narreddy) and that an earlier bench led by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud had ruled against an interim order on April 24 and forwarded the case to the High Court. On being summoned, the accused refuse to work with the investigating agency, while Avinash Reddy stays away from the investigation due to his mother’s sickness. Initial temporary protection had not been granted by the High Court.
Suneetha Narreddy, the petitioner, has asked for a “ex-parte ad interim” stay of the May 31 judgment and order that granted anticipatory bail to Avinash Reddy, a Lok Sabha member from Kadapa parliamentary constituency, in connection with the murder of Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy. She has raised many arguments in opposition to the High Court’s ruling.
Additionally, she has asked the CBI for more time to finish its probe into the bigger plot behind the suspected murder of Vivekanand Reddy. The top court ordered the CBI to wrap up the inquiry by June 30, 2023 in its ruling dated April 24, 2023.
Suneetha Narredyy, who is contesting the High Court order, claims that following a “mini trial and giving findings/making comments on the merits of the prosecution case,” the High Court essentially accepted Avinash Reddy’s entire case while ignoring the evidence gathered by the CBI, which is conducting the investigation.
The plea claims that despite notifications from the CBI requesting him to appear before it, Avinash Reddy has allegedly been uncooperative in the case’s investigation on the previous three times.
Suneetha Narreddy, the petitioner, claims that Avinash Reddy and the other defendants “successfully” tampered with the evidence by “destroying the scene of the offence in the presence of the state police and had propagated the story that the deceased had died due to a heart attack.”
In reality, according to the plea, Avinash Reddy “pressured the police not to register a FIR as a result of which only an inquest under S. 174 Cr.PC was started, in a case of cold blooded murder as is evidenced from photographs of the deceased.”
In July 2020, on the instruction of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, the CBI took over the probe. The complaint was first filed at police station Pulivendula in the Andhra Pradeshi district of Kadapa. The Kadapa Lok Sabha seat was represented by the late Vivekanand Reddy.
On March 15, 2019, Vivekananda Reddy, a former MP, was discovered dead at his home in Pulivendula, one month before the general elections in 2019.
