Hyderabad High Court to hear petition for Centre probe into attack

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Monday posted the hearing of a writ petition to Wednesday moved by former MP of the YSR Congress Y.V. Subba Reddy, urging the court to direct the Centre to conduct a probe through any of independent agencies or a judicial probe into the attempt to murder YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam Airport.

Justice A.V. Sesha Sai stated that he will hear the writ on Wednesday in view of a PIL (listed for Tuesday) which was moved questioning the failure of the authorities conducting the security checks properly at airports in AP more particularly at Visakhapatnam Airport.

The senior counsel appearing for the petitioner told the court that Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy escaped with an injury to his shoulder in the attack by one J. Srinivasa Rao , a worker of the airport canteen, while he was waiting in the VIP lounge on October 25 to catch a flight to Hyderabad.

He submitted that the police has not investigated the case properly and soon after the incident the AP DGP in a press conference said that the incident was planned for publicity, but the police in their remand report stated that the attack was planed to eliminate the Leader of Opposition.

When the judge sought the response from government counsel, he submitted that the writ was not maintainable and urged the court to grant time till Monday to place all the relevant judgements in this regard.

When the judge said that he will post the case to Monday, counsel for the petitioner submitted that urgent hearing is needed in the case as the police had already commenced the investigation.

Stating that what is wrong if the investigation is on, the judge questioned the petitioner whether they had represented to the authorities for the investigation through an independent agency.