A Supreme Court bench on Friday posted to June 13 the petition of Dr.N.Sunitha challenging the Telangana High Court decision granting anticipatory bail to Kadapa MP Y.S.Avinash Reddy in the Y.S.Vivekananda Reddy murder case.The matter figured in SC for urgent listing before a vacation bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Rajesh Bindal.
Sunitha, daughter of the murdered former MP, contended through her counsel Siddharth Luthra that Avinash Reddy has for several times not cooperated on summons issued by CBI.
“He is the principal conspirator in the murder of Vivekananda Reddy.The High Court had initially refused to grant him interim protection.Key witnesses in the case need protection from the MP.The CBI is also opposing bail for Avinash Reddy,” Luthra pointed out, seeking cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted to the MP.
Justice Bose then proceeded to list the case on June 13.
A few days ago, the CBI had listed Avinash Reddy as accused number 8 in the Vivekananda Reddy murder case.
‘High court ignored evidence’
The petition alleged that the high court, after holding a “mini-trial and giving findings/making comments on the merits of the prosecution case”, virtually accepted the entire case of Avinash Reddy, disregarding the evidence collected by the CBI.
Alleging non-cooperation by Avinash Reddy in the investigation, the petition said that he did not appear before the investigating agency on the last three occasions despite issuing notices.
The petitioner alleged that Avinash Reddy along with the other accused “successfully” tampered with evidence by “destroying the scene of offence in the presence of the state police and propagated the story that the deceased had died due to a heart attack”.
The petition said that Avinash Reddy had in fact “pressurised the police not to register an FIR as a result of which only an inquest under Section 174 CrPC was started, in a case of cold-blooded murder as is evidenced from photographs of the deceased …”.
The CBI took over the investigation in July 2020 based on an Andhra Pradesh High Court directive.The case was earlier registered at a police station at Pulivendula in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa district.
Viveka represented the Kadapa constituency in the Lok Sabha.
