NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday decided to take up on June 13 a plea challenging the Telangana High Court's order allowing anticipatory bail to YSRCP MP from Kadapa Y S Avinash Reddy in the 2019 murder case of former Andhra Pradesh Minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy.
A vacation bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Rajesh Bindal put the plea filed by Suneetha Narreddy, daughter of Y S Vivekananda Reddy, for hearing on Tuesday.
Appearing for the petitioner, senior advocate Sidharth Luthra said, "He is the principal conspirator in the death of my father. He is a local MP. He is getting political support from the administration, who ensured that the CBI could not arrest him".
In her special leave petition, Narreddy contended that the high court virtually accepted the entire case put forth by the accused and disregarded the evidence collected by the CBI.
She also alleged that the Kadapa MP from the ruling party had not cooperated with the CBI by evading three notices for appearance.
Her plea also said the high court allowed the anticipatory bail to the accused contrary to the law laid down by this court as it held a mini trial and gave findings and made comments on the merits of the prosecution case.
On May 31, the Telangana High Court granted anticipatory bail to Avinash Reddy, saying the entire CBI case was based on hearsay evidence.
The MP had not appeared before the CBI on May 16 and May 19 in Hyderabad. On May 16, he cited prior-fixed official engagements in Pulivendula as the reason and sought four days' time. On May 19, he conveyed to the CBI that he would not be able to appear before it as his mother took ill. She was admitted to a hospital in Kurnool and the MP was also staying there.
The central agency had issued a fresh notice on May 19, directing him to appear before it at its Hyderabad office on May 22.
Amid reports of the CBI officials reaching Kurnool for possible arrest, he wrote to the CBI seeking exemption from appearance till May 27 in view of his mother's condition.
Vivekananda Reddy, brother of former Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, uncle of current Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, was murdered at his residence in Pulivendula on March 15, 2019, just weeks before the elections.
