Andhra Pradesh ex-CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, two senior IPS officers booked for ‘attempt to murder’
Guntur, July 12
The Andhra Pradesh Police registered an “attempt-to-murder” case against former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, two senior IPS officers and two retired officials, following a complaint lodged by a TDP MLA, an official said on Friday. The complaint was lodged by the ruling party’s Undi MLA K Raghurama Krishna Raju, who was a YSRCP Lok Sabha MP between 2019 and 2024 but had a fallout with Reddy at an early stage.
The allegations against ysrcp chief
- The case was booked at Nagarampalem police station in Guntur
- TDP leader Raju’s 2021 arrest case came to the fore after he lodged a complaint against Reddy over it on June 10
- He accused the former CM and senior officials of “plotting” a criminal “conspiracy” against him
Besides Reddy, the police booked senior IPS officers PV Sunil Kumar and PSR Sitaramanjaneyulu and retired police officer R Vijay Paul and former Guntur Government General Hospital superintendent G Prabhavati, the official said. Vijay Paul and Prabhavati have superannuated.
“Raju sent his police complaint through mail one month ago and after taking legal opinion, I registered a case at 7 pm on Thursday against the former CM and others,” the official said. Raju, a former MP, also alleged that he was subjected to “custodial torture”, he added.
The police booked the five suspects under IPC Sections 120-B, 166, 167, 197, 307, 326, 465 and 506 read with 34. The police invoked the IPC as the case was three years old.
The case was booked at the Nagarampalem police station in Guntur. TDP leader Raju’s 2021 arrest case came to the fore in Andhra Pradesh after he lodged a complaint against Reddy and some officials over it on June 10.
He accused the former CM and the senior officials of “plotting” a criminal “conspiracy” against him. Raju, 62, alleged in his complaint that senior IPS officers Sunil Kumar and Sitaramanjaneyulu, police officer Vijaya Paul and government doctor Prabhavathi were part of that conspiracy.
He was arrested in May 2021 in the middle of the Covid-19 second wave. “A false case was registered against me by the CB-CID of the Andhra Pradesh Government. On May 14, 2021, I was arrested without due process, was bullied, unlawfully physically pulled inside the police vehicle and forcibly taken to Guntur the same night,” Raju alleged in the complaint.
When Raju was arrested, Kumar was heading the CID, Sitaramanjaneyulu the Intelligence wing, Paul was ASP CID and Reddy was the CM.
The MLA said though he had undergone an open heart surgery some weeks before his arrest, he was abused. He also alleged that there were threats to kill him for “criticising the Chief Minister (Jagan).”
“Due to police brutality, I was shifted from Guntur to the Secunderabad Army Hospital by the orders of the Supreme Court and thereafter I was granted bail by the SC,” said Raju. The bail came a week later. Reacting to the FIR filed against him, Sunil Kumar wondered how a “new FIR” could be filed in a three-year-old case “rejected” by the Supreme Court.
“I leave it to your wisdom to understand how an FIR can be filed anew in a case that has already been dismissed by the SC after three years of proceedings,” Kumar said in a social media post.
