After staying put at a hospital in Kurnool for eight days, Kadapa MP YS Avinash Reddy on Friday, May 26, travelled to Hyderabad with his ailing mother YS Lakshmi. With improvement in Lakshmi's condition, she was discharged from Viswa Bharati Hospital in Kurnool. The MP along with his mother reached Hyderabad on Friday, where was admitted to AIG Hospital in Gachibowli.
Earlier, Viswa Bharati Hospital stated in a health bulletin that her condition was stable and was being discharged. It said there was a need to shift her to a higher centre for elective coronary intervention. The development comes even as the hearing was on in Telangana High Court on Avinash Reddy's anticipatory bail petition in the murder case of former Andhra Pradesh minister YS Vivekananda Reddy.
A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been tailing Avinash Reddy ever since he skipped appearing before it and reached the private hospital in Kurnool where his mother was undergoing treatment for heart ailment. Avinash Reddy, who is a second cousin of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, had written to the CBI seeking exemption from appearance time till Saturday (May 27) in view of his mother's condition.
The MP had not appeared before the CBI on May 16 and May 19 in Hyderabad. On May 16, he cited prior-fixed official engagements in Pulivendula as the reason and sought four days' time. On May 19, he conveyed to the CBI that he would not be able to appear before it as his mother took ill.
The MP, who was in Hyderabad, left for his home town Pulivendula in Kadapa district and got his mother admitted to the Kurnool hospital. Since then, he has been staying at the hospital. The central agency had issued a fresh notice on May 19, directing him to appear before it at its Hyderabad office on May 22. However, the MP once again expressed his inability to appear due to his mother's poor health.
Vivekananda Reddy, brother of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, uncle of Jagan Mohan Reddy, was murdered at his residence in Pulivendula on March 15, 2019, weeks before the elections. Last month, the CBI arrested Avinash Reddy's father YS Bhaskar Reddy, a cousin of Rajasekhara Reddy.
The agency told the court during the hearing on multiple occasions that Bhaskar Reddy, Avinash Reddy and their follower Devireddy Shiva Shankar Reddy hatched a conspiracy to murder Vivekananda Reddy as he had opposed the Kadapa Lok Sabha ticket to Avinash Reddy. Avinash Reddy has denied the allegations against him and his father and alleged that the CBI ignored several key facts in the case.