CBI Summons Jagan Reddy’s Cousin For Questioning In Homicide Case: Report

New Delhi:

The CBI has requested Lok Sabha MP from Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh Avinash Reddy to seem for questioning on January 28 in reference to the killing of Vivekananda Reddy, the youthful brother of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, in 2019, officers mentioned Wednesday.

The company had earlier summoned him on Tuesday however the MP sought extra time, following which the CBI has given him a brand new date of January 28, they mentioned.

Based on the CBI cost sheet, Vivekananda Reddy was allegedly in search of a parliamentary ballot ticket for himself or Y S Sharmila (sister of Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy) or Y S Vijayamma (Jagan Mohan Reddy’s mom) as a substitute of the incumbent Avinash Reddy from the Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency.

Avinash is a cousin of Jagan Mohan Reddy.

“Therefore it’s suspected that MP Avinash Reddy has obtained him (Vivekananda Reddy) killed by means of his henchman D Siva Shankar Reddy, a pacesetter of the ruling YSR Congress occasion. Investigation on this facet remains to be underway,” the CBI had mentioned in its cost sheet.

The CBI had arrested Shankar Reddy in November final yr and filed a supplementary cost sheet in opposition to him in January.

The central company has mentioned Shankar Reddy supplied Rs 10 crore to at least one Ok Gangadhar Reddy for taking duty of Vivekananda Reddy’s homicide.

The CBI has saved the probe open to unravel the function of different accused individuals within the destruction of scene of crime and bigger conspiracy of homicide.

It has to date named 248 individuals as witnesses within the case and connected their statements.

“Investigation revealed that Vivekananda Reddy was murdered on account of well-planned conspiracy by T Gangi Reddy alias Yerra Gangi Reddy and Shaik Dastagiri, Yaditi Sunil Yadav and Gajala Uma Shankar Reddy, who all had separate and private grudges/ motives to be part of the conspiracy of homicide,” the CBI had mentioned within the first cost sheet.

Dastagiri, who as soon as labored as driver of Vivekananda Reddy, later turned approver and gave a confessional assertion earlier than the junior civil decide, Proddatur.

Citing the confessional assertion, the CBI mentioned the homicide was executed by Gangi Reddy, with the assistance of Sunil Yadav, Uma Shankar Reddy and Dastagiri.

The conspiracy for homicide was hatched by Gangi Reddy a month previous to the offence.

The CBI had filed a cost sheet within the homicide case on October 26, 2021 and adopted it up with a supplementary cost sheet on January 31, 2022.

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