VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed the Crime Investigation Department (CID) to place complete details before it in connection with a petition filed by former government advisor Kesireddy Rajasekhar Reddy, who has sought quashing of a case registered against him in the liquor transportation tenders matter.
Kesireddy, who has been named as fourth accused in the case, approached the High Court challenging the CID case and requested that all further proceedings, including any coercive action or arrest, be stayed until the disposal of his petition.
The matter came up for hearing before Justice Dr Yadavalli Lakshmana Rao on Thursday. After hearing the submissions, the court directed the CID investigating officer to submit the complete details of the case and adjourned further hearing to next week.
In his petition, Kesireddy argued that the liquor transportation tenders case should be treated as part of the larger liquor scam investigation and not as an independent criminal case. He contended that registering a separate case on the same set of transactions was legally untenable.
The petitioner maintained that multiple FIRs relating to the same offence or transaction are unconstitutional and amount to a violation of personal liberty. He alleged that the authorities were registering successive cases and attempting to question him in custody on issues arising from the same transaction.
