ACB Moves Supreme Court Against Revanth Reddy Bail

The Telangana ACB on Thursday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court pleading for the quashing of the bail granted by the High Court of Hyderabad to A Revanth Reddy and two other accused in the note-for-vote case.

Consequent to the bail granted by the High Court, the TDP MLA Revanth Reddy, Harry Sebastian and Uday Simha, all accused in the scam and arrested on May 31, walked out of the Charlapalli central jail on Wednesday.

The ACB in its appeal to the apex court justified the need for dismissing the bail order of the lower court by reminded that the investigations in the scandal were still in progress and had reached a crucial stage.

Reddy was caught red-handed while offering the bribe to nominated Anglo-Indian Telangana MLA Elvis Stephenson, and the audio and video recordings were the clinching evidence secured during the probe, the ACB stated. The Forensic Science Laboratory had also submitted a report in this regard and it needed to be studied, the ACB explained in its appeal.

While stating that another accused TDP Sattupally MLA S Venkata Veeraiah was evading arrest, the ACB brought to the notice of the Supreme Court the utterances of Revanth Reddy during a rally after his release from jail and contended that it amply proved that the accused could tamper with the evidence and influence witnesses with threats.

The apex court is likely to take up the hearing of the appeal petition in the case on Friday.

In a surprising development, even as the ACB was bringing to the notice of the Supreme Court the Sattupalli MLA evading arrest, he appeared in Khammam at a meeting on Thursday when he reiterated that he would be always available in Khammam and would depose before the investigating authorities whenever called. (NSS)