HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court on Thursday reserved the orders in the batch of petitions filed by Jagathi Publications and YSRC MP V. Vijayasai Reddy, which requested a direction to the special court to hear the cases registered by the CBI into the quid pro quo cases initially and later the cases registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The petitions were filed challenging the decision of the trial court, which decided to hear the ED cases first.
Representing the petitioners, senior counsel S. Niranjan Reddy, who is also YSRC Rajya Sabha member, argued that if the accused in the CBI cases were acquitted, there would be no case under Prevention of Money Laundering Act to be tried by the ED. He said that the ED had filed the cases only on the basis of the FIRs registered by the CBI.
Suryakaran Reddy, additional solicitor general representing the ED, said that the same High Court, in similar petitions by the same petitioners, had dismissed the plea. In turn, they had approached the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court was yet to decide the issue, hence, there was no need to pass the deviation orders to the earlier orders, in the present petition, he argued.
