CBI presents CM Jagan Reddy’s sister YS Sharmila as a ‘secret witness’ in Vivekananda Reddy homicide case

The CBI’s second and ultimate chargesheet within the high-profile homicide case of Former Andra Pradesh Minister YS Vivekananda Reddy was made public on the twentieth of July. In its chargesheet, the CBI revealed that its ‘secret witness’ within the case was none apart from YS Sharmila. Notably, she is the youthful sister of CM Jagan Mohan Reddy and the YSR Telangana celebration’s founder and President. 

The CBI chargesheet and her assertion given earlier than the CBI officers got here out on Friday, twenty first of July. In her assertion, Sharmila said that his paternal uncle Vivekananda Reddy needed to make sure that Avinash Reddy doesn’t get a ticket from Kadapa within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. 

She categorically pressured that there’s a hyperlink between the homicide and his political strikes concentrating on Avinash Reddy’s political probabilities. 

She added that there was a chilly war-like state of affairs between the 2 households of  Vivekananda and Avinash Reddy. It is necessary to notice that each their households are intently associated and Jagan’s spouse Bharathi is the daughter of Bhaskar Reddy’s sister. 

Sharmila additional revealed that her uncle Vivekananda had contested towards YS Avinash Reddy earlier. According to her, Avinash’s household might have developed in poor health will towards Vivekananda for these causes.

Sharmila additionally instructed the CBI officers that her uncle had blamed Bhaskar Reddy, his brother Manohar Reddy and Avinash Reddy for his defeat within the Andhra Pradesh legislative council elections in 2017. She added that he then determined to show them a lesson.

She mentioned, “They might have kept this in their heart that this person (Vivekananda) was coming in their way. It may be a political murder or motive.” 

According to the cost sheet, Sharmila’s testimony has corroborated the company’s principle that YSRCP’s Kadapa MP YS Avinash Reddy (second cousin of Jagan and YS Sharmila) and his father Bhaskar Reddy are the principle accused on this homicide case and political motives have been the rationale for the killing. 

As per the idea put forth by CBI, Avinash Reddy and his father Bhaskar needed to get rid of Vivekananda as their households had been embroiled in a long-running political rivalry, nevertheless, this worsened over the Kadapa MP seat in 2019. Subsequently, the father-son duo allegedly hatched a plan to homicide Vivekananda with their aide D Siva Shankar Reddy. Apparently, a number of of Vivekananda’s closest aides together with Yerra Gangi Reddy, Sunil Yadav, and Dastagir have been additionally concerned on this homicide case. 

According to the CBI, Vivekananda knowledgeable Jagan that he ought to allocate the celebration’s ticket for the Kadapa seat to both his mom, YS Vijayamma, or his sister Sharmila. In her assertion, Sharmila too confirmed this principle. 

She mentioned that Vivekananda got here to her two months earlier than his homicide and insisted that she comply with his proposal to maintain Avinash and his household out of the fray. She claimed that she accepted his proposal although she had apprehensions about whether or not his brother Jagan would give her the ticket.

In the 2011 by-polls, Vivekananda contested because the Congress candidate from Pulivendula meeting seat. YSRCP had fielded Vijayamma who received the seat. Later within the 2014 polls, Avinash was chosen because the Kadapa MP candidate. When Vivekananda thought that Jagan might not give him the seat for the 2019 polls, so he noticed Vijayamma or Sharmila as options to dam Avinash’s bid for the ticket. 

Sharmila’s testimony to CBI was recorded on the seventh of October, 2022 on the CBI workplace in Delhi. On account of that, the CBI had earlier said that it had satisfied a key witness to corroborate its principle. In its ultimate cost sheet, the central company has charged each Avinash and his father Bhaskar Reddy for planning the homicide and hiring 4 assailants. 

The political blame recreation

On the fifteenth of March 2019, YSRCP chief YS Vivekananda Reddy was brutally killed at his residence within the Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. He was a former Minister, the younger brother of Former Andra Pradesh CM YS Rajasekhara Reddy, and the paternal uncle of present Andra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy. The CBI took over the case in July 2020.

Back then, YSCRP launched a press word stating, “Preliminary conclusions of the post-mortem stated that YS Vivekananda Reddy had been murdered. The coroner’s report held that there were seven stab wounds on his body made by a sharp object.”

The Police added that the deceased suffered a number of accidents brought on by a pointy weapon, most likely an axe. 

At that point, YSRCP President Jagan Mohan Reddy blamed the TDP for his uncle’s homicide. Demanding a CBI inquiry, he asserted that solely a probe by an impartial company may reveal the reality. 

However, later Vivekananda’s daughter Suneetha requested the Andhra Pradesh High Court to permit for a CBI inquiry. She claimed that AP CM Jagan was unwilling to pursue it.