The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has been investigating the 2019 murder of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, former Kadapa MLA Y S Vivekananda Reddy, has arrested the main accused in the case, one Sunil Kumar Yadav, in Goa.
A team of CBI officials caught Yadav a native of Telangana's Pulivendula, yesterday. He was later brought to Kadapa on a transit remand.
The CBI had already interrogated the suspect a couple of times before the arrest. Reports say that following this, he had fled with his family to Goa.
Currently, the investigation agency is interrogating several other suspects in the Kadapa Central Prison as well, and has already interrogated a close confidante of Vivekananda Reddy's family Erra Gangi Reddy.
The arrest comes days after the CBI
unearthed new evidence in the sensational case.
The former minister was found dead at his residence in Kadapa, AP, on March 15, 2019. His family had insisted that he had not passed away due to any natural causes. His nephew, incumbent AP CM Jaganmohan Reddy, had even alleged that the TDP was involved in the grisly killing, and had demanded that a CBI probe be launched into the matter.
However, after he took over as CM in 2019, Jagan was faced with a rather embarrassing situation when Vivekananda Reddy's daughter approached the AP High Court last year. She alleged that she suspected the CM, Kadapa MP Y S Avinash Reddy and his father Y S Bhaskar Reddy, as having played a role in her father's sudden death. She had also criticised the AP CM for not handing over the case, which was then being investigated by a Special Investigation Team, to the CBI after coming to power.
It was in response to her petition that the HC ordered a CBI enquiry into the case