Purandeswari urges CJI to cancel bail of YSRCP Rajya Sabha member Vijaya Sai Reddy

Purandeswari urges CJI to cancel bail of YSRCP Rajya Sabha member Vijaya Sai Reddy. Requesting that the cases pending against the YSRCP leader be brought to their logical conclusion in six months, the BJP A.P. president, in a letter to Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, alleges that he and his partners in crime such as Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy have been out on bail for more than a decade by exploiting the procedural gaps in judicial system.

Andhra Pradesh BJP president Daggubati Purandeswari wrote a letter to Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on November 4, requesting him to bring the criminal cases pending against YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) Rajya Sabha member V. Vijaya Sai Reddy to closure in six months by immediately cancelling his bail.

Ms. Purandeswari pointed out that Mr. Vijaya Sai Reddy and his “partners in crime” such as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy were out on bail for more than a decade by “exploiting the procedural gaps in the judicial system.”

“They have been allegedly taking advantage of repeated adjournments and hampering justice delivery by not appearing in the courts in the cases filed by the CBI, the Enforcement Directorate and the Income-Tax Department,” she said.

Mr. Vijaya Sai Reddy, who is A-2 in Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s disproportionate assets (DA) case, was granted bail by a special court way back in April 2012.

Ms. Purandeswari said that Mr. Vijaya Sai Reddy was facing 11 charges of cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property (Section 420 of IPC), an equal number of charges of criminal conspiracy (Section 120-B), six charges of forgery (Section 468), two charges of criminal breach of trust by a public servant/banker/merchant/ agent (Section 409), two charges of using forged document/electronic record (Section 471) and one charge of falsification of accounts (Section 477A).

She emphasised that the CBI had told the courts that Mr. Vijaya Sai Reddy played a key role in the conversion of black money into white through foreign investments made in Jagathi Publications owned by Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s family.

“Besides, Mr. Vijaya Sai Reddy has acquired valuable properties in Visakhapatnam on the basis of prior information about the proposed shifting of capital from Amaravati to the Port City as part of the move to decentralise administration,” she said.