The Telangana High Court has granted anticipatory bail to Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy in former Andhra Pradesh Minister Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy’s murder case.
The special vacation bench of the High Court, which completed the hearing last week, pronounced its order on Wednesday.
The CBI and Vivekananda Reddy’s daughter Sunitha Reddy had opposed the anticipatory bail.
HYDERABAD: Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili of the Telangana High Court has granted authorisation to the State government to carry out sand mining activities in the Manair River, paving the way for the extraction of sand from various designated locations, including Vavilala, Utoor village Challur, Mallareddypally, Kondapaka, and Pothireddypalli in Karimnagar district.
The judge was hearing a writ petition filed by the vice-chairman and managing director of the Telangana State Mineral Development Corporation (TSMDC), challenging an interim order issued by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Zone, Chennai.
The controversy arose when Gadeela Raghuveer Reddy and others lodged a complaint with the NGT, claiming that sand mining operations were being conducted in the Manair River as part of a de-siltation project. The NGT responded by issuing an ex-parte ad interim order, effectively halting sand mining activities in the region and serving notices to the State government.
Following this, TSMDC V-C and MD G Malsur approached the High Court, contesting the NGT’s order on the grounds that it violated the provisions of the National Green Tribunal Acts. According to Section 19 (4) of the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010, interim orders cannot be issued without providing the parties involved an opportunity to be heard. Malsur argued that no notice was served to the respondents, denying them a chance to present their case, and therefore requested the court to vacate the ex-parte interim order.
After careful consideration of the writ petition, the High Court granted permission to the State government to proceed with sand mining activities in the Manair River for the purpose of public development.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Telangana High Court order granting protection from arrest till April 25 to YSR Congress Party Lok Sabha member Y S Avinash Reddy in a case pertaining to the murder of former Andhra Pradesh Minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy.
Observing that an “atrocious and unacceptable” order was passed by the high court, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha stayed proceedings before the high court and issued notice on the plea challenging protection to Reddy.
“Issue notice.There shall be a stay of the impugned directions contained in paragraph 18 of the impugned order of the High Court. However, till Monday the CBI shall not arrest him,” the bench said while posting the matter for hearing on April 24.
The Telangana High Court on April 18 directed the YSRCP MP to appear before the CBI everyday for examination in the case pertaining to the murder of Y S Vivekananda Reddy, and granted him protection from arrest till April 25.
In an interim order on the anticipatory bail plea of Avinash Reddy, the court asked him to cooperate with the Central agency and appear before it daily till April 25.
Vivekananda Reddy, one of the brothers of the late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, was found murdered at his residence in Pulivendula in Kadapa district, on the night of March 15, 2019, weeks before the Assembly elections in the State.
The case was initially probed by a special investigation team (SIT) of the state crime investigation department, but was handed over to the CBI in July 2020.
The CBI filed a charge sheet in the murder case on October 26, 2021 and followed it up with a supplementary charge sheet on January 31, 2022.
Hyderabad: Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, who was arrested in a case related to class X question paper leak, has moved a bail application in a Warangal court which would hear it on Thursday, an advocate said.
Sanjay Kumar, a Lok Sabha MP from Karimnagar constituency, was picked up by a team of police past midnight on Tuesday from his residence in Karimnagar city and was initially put under preventive arrest, triggering protests by his party workers.
“A bail application was moved last night in a Warangal Court. It is expected to be heard today. Also, there was a habeas corpus petition filed in the Telangana High Court. That also would come up for hearing today,” BJP leader and advocate Rachana Reddy told PTI.
Amid midnight drama, Sanjay was arrested by police on Wednesday after he was named as the prime accused by the city police in connection with the case of malpractice after a question paper of Standard 10 (SSC) board examination surfaced on groups of an instant messaging app. He was produced in a local court in the evening in Warangal.
According to Warangal Police Commissioner AV Ranganath, Sanjay Kumar conspired with an intention to create rumours and provoke a breach of peace of the ongoing public examination in Telangana state after images of two question papers surfaced in social media, to defame the government for the circulation to create fear among students and their parents thereby to defame the duly elected state government.