SC upholds lifer for YSR fathers killers

One of the accused,Perla Uma Maheswara Reddy was hacked to death in retaliation for the attack by Raja Reddys supporters the same day.

The then TDP government entrusted the case to the Crime Branch of Crime Investigation Department CB-CID,which registered a case against 19 accused,and filed a charge sheet against them in 1999. One of the suspects S V Satish Kumar Reddy,who was excluded from the list of accused,was even fielded by the TDP against Rajasekhara Reddy in Pulivendula assembly constituency in the 2004 elections.

Two of the accused died during the course of trial while three were acquitted for want of evidence. The first additional sessions judge of Kadapa had initially acquitted all the accused for want of evidence in 2004,a decision which was challenged by the Congress government in the High Court the same year.