The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has informed the Supreme Court that it has finished investigating the murder of former minister Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy. If the Court directs further work to be done, the CBI has announced it will resume the investigation.
A hearing was adjourned because the senior lawyer for Viveka's daughter, Sunitha, was engaged in another court. The M. M. Sundaresh-led bench will start further proceedings shortly.
On June 21, the Supreme Court asked the CBI to clarify three questions. It asked whether further investigation is needed, whether trial and investigation may proceed at the same time, and what the CBI thinks of the closure report filed by the Andhra Pradesh government against Sunitha and Rajasekhar Narreddy in the Sessions Court at Kadapa. The CBI has now responded to these questions in the court.
In the past, Telangana High Court had granted anticipatory bail to Avinash Reddy and other accused. Sunitha and the CBI appealed that bail order in the Supreme Court. Senior lawyer of Sunitha, Siddhartha Luthra, contended that Avinash Reddy and others are tampering with witnesses. The Andhra Pradesh government indicated in its closure report that Sunitha and Ram Singh were included in a case merely because Avinash Reddy directed it. The CBI has urged this report to be perused.
During the last hearing, Luthra stated that the state government accepted that it filed the case against Sunitha and Ram Singh at Avinash Reddy's behest. He added that this indicated a conspiracy to scuttle the investigation. The Supreme Court is now mulling cancelling bail for the principal accused, Avinash Reddy, who is also charged with intimidating witnesses.
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