Avinash Reddy listed as eighth accused in YS Viveka murder case, CBI tells court
Avinash Reddy has been charged with hatching the plan to murder Vivekananda Reddy.
HYDERABAD: The CBI stated on Thursday that it had made Kadapa YSRC MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy the eighth accused in the case of murder of Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy.
Avinash Reddy has been charged with hatching the plan to murder Vivekananda Reddy. As per the CBI version, he played a key role in the destruction of evidence at the crime scene along with his father Bhaskar Reddy and other accused. Then he propagated that Vivekananda Reddy had died of a heart attack.
The central investigation agency furnished these details to the CBI court in Hyderabad, which was considering the bail petition of Bhaskar Reddy.
Opposing the bail application, CBI filed a counter in which it said Avinash Reddy was the eighth accused. He along with his father and others plotted a plan to eliminate Vivekananda Reddy for political reasons and there were other larger motives too, the CBI said.
The CBI counter further said, “The evidence on record establishes that the plan for execution of the murder was chalked out at the behest of Y.S. Bhaskar Reddy (A-7), his son Y.S. Avinash Reddy (A-8) and D. Siva Shankar Reddy (A-5) at the residence of T. Gangi Reddy @ Yerra Gangi Reddy (A-1) at Pulivendula, district Kadapa, where there were three other co-accused persons too (the executors)”.
So far, Avinash Reddy had not been arraigned as accused. CBI had tried to arrest him and it also opposed the anticipatory bail plea of Avinash Reddy.
In the anticipatory bail petition, while opposing the proposed custody of Avinash Reddy by the CBI, his counsel had asked how the CBI could seek the arrest and police custody of Avinash Reddy as he was not arraigned as an accused.
Then, in the counter copy furnished before the CBI court, the central agency submitted that Avinash Reddy was indeed an accused, the eighth accused. The CBI said it had information to substantiate the claim that Bhaskar Reddy and his son were having questionable antecedents.
CBI had also mentioned in the counter that, during the investigation, it was found that information relating to the death of Vivekananda Reddy had been received by Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy early in the morning, around 6.15 am, before the information was made public by M.V. Krishna Reddy, PA of the deceased Vivekananda Reddy.
