The court said it cannot hear the petition, without going through the SC order quashing the high court orders against Avinash Reddy's arrest.
Telangana High Court hearing anticipatory bail petition of Avinash Reddy.
The Telangana High Court on Wednesday, 26 April, adjourned the hearing on Kadapa MP YS Avinash Reddy’s petition for anticipatory bail in the murder of his uncle and former Andhra Pradesh minister YS Vivekananda Reddy by a day, to Thursday.
The court said it cannot take up a petition not listed for the day and that it would hear the arguments on Thursday, in response to a plea by the petitioner’s counsel to hear the case on Wednesday itself.
Even as the court said it would hear the petition Thursday, counsels for Vivekananda Reddy’s daughter N Sunitha Reddy sought a hearing on the petition on Friday.
The high court recently passed interim orders providing immunity to Avinash Reddy against arrest till 25 April which were shot down by the Supreme Court.
As Avinash Reddy’s anticipatory bail petition was already before the court, it was expected that the high court will hear the case on Tuesday but it did not happen as the court did not get the orders of the Supreme Court by then.
The court said it cannot hear the petition without going through the Supreme Court order quashing the high court orders against Avinash Reddy’s arrest.
The Apex Court termed the high court order “unwarranted” while quashing the interim orders against Avinash Reddy’s arrest.
Avinash Reddy filed the anticipatory bail petition on 17 April, ahead of his questioning by the CBI.
His father YS Bhaskar Reddy, who is the uncle of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, was arrested by the CBI on 16 April in the case.
Avinash Reddy is a nephew of YS Vivekananda Reddy and a cousin of Jagan Mohan Reddy.
After Avinash Reddy filed the anticipatory bail petition the high court asked him to appear for examination before the CBI every day till 25 April and granted him protection from arrest till that date.
The CBI filed a charge sheet in the murder case on 26 October, 2021, and followed it up with a supplementary charge sheet on 31 January, 2022.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy’s paternal uncle Vivekananda Reddy — popularly known as Viveka — was murdered at his residence in Kadapa on the intervening night of 14 and 15 March, 2019.
YS Bhaskar Reddy was arrested on 16 April and was charged under Sections 120B (conspiracy), 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as he played a crucial role in the case, according to the CBI.
Soon after Vivekananda Reddy’s death, Bhaskar Reddy and Avinash Reddy’s names figured in the murder case that created a sensation before the Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh in 2019.
The probe agency believes he had spoken to the accused before and after the murder.
According to the CBI, the father and son hatched the plot to murder Vivekananda Reddy and sheltered the accused.
Their associate Devireddy Shiva Shankar Reddy played a crucial role in erasing evidence, the CBI said in a response filed before the court to oppose the bail of Sunil Yadav, who is an accused in the case.
The CBI also said that a ₹40 crore “supari” (contract to kill) was offered to the accused to eliminate Viveka.
The Supreme Court last November transferred the case from Andhra Pradesh to a Special CBI Court in Hyderabad for investigation and trial into the conspiracy behind the murder case.
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