New Delhi, April 15: The Supreme Court filed a response from a defendant on Tuesday regarding his request for the cancellation of his bail in connection with the 2019 murder of former Congressman YS Vivekananda Reddy.
Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar’s bench record lawsuits by CBI of Vivekananda’s daughter Suneetha Narreddy and advocate Jesal Wahi, advocate, against Telangana’s High Court order, awarding Bail Bail to Gajjala Uday Kumar Reddy.
“Distribute notice and mark these petitions with pending petitions,” CJI said. Suneetha attacked the High Court order of August 21, 2024 in her plea to grant Gajjala regular bail, believed to be a close partner of Kadapa MP YS Avinash Reddy of the YSR Congress party, to enforce a personal bail of Rs 2 crore from the YSR Congress party, which is a personal bond of Rs 2 crore.
“He was found to be one of the accomplices of the murderer and filed serious charges against respondent No. 1 in the event of undermining important evidence and false FIR registration against CBI officials.”
Looking for the cancellation of the bail, the daughter said relief was given to him at a “critical moment” when the trial was about to begin. The CBI fled a similar defense against a High Court order, indicating that the parties filed a series of lawsuits in the case. On December 6 last year, the Supreme Court sought response from CBI and YS Bhaskar Reddy, Kadapa MP YS Avinash Reddy’s father called on him for bail in the murder case.
The court then issued a notice on Suneetha’s request to cancel the bail granted by the Telangana High Court to Bhaskar Reddy. Vivekananda, the uncle of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, was murdered in March 2019 at his home in Pulivendula, Kadapa District. The CBI took over the investigation in 2020, saying it was a complex conspiracy involving multiple people. On November 19, 2024, the Supreme Court sought responses from Andhra Pradesh police and others and submitted two separate requests from Suneetha and CBI official Ram Singh. The defense demands criminal proceedings against Sonesa and CBI officials involved in the murder investigation.
They claimed that police in the state had objected to them in order to derail the ongoing investigation and urged the Supreme Court to drop the criminal proceedings. Suneetha was appointed as a defendant along with CBI official Singh, a criminal case filed by MV Krishna Reddy, former personal assistant to Vivekananda. The Supreme Court also issued another notice of the request, which granted bail to YS Avinash, one of the defendants who murdered a former member of Congress in 2019, accusing him of tampering with evidence and trying to lure the approver of the case. The Supreme Court has filed several petitions related to the case, including challenges to bail orders and allegations of witness intimidation. Another defendant in the case, D Siva Shankar Reddy, filed another petition.
The case has witnessed many twists and turns, starting with crimes that took place in the weeks leading up to the parliamentary elections in Andhra Pradesh in 2019, raising doubts about political motives. The case was originally investigated by state police and transferred to the CBI in 2020, and the agency arrested YS Bhaskar on April 16, 2023, accusing him of being involved in a murder plot.
