In a relief to former Tadipatri legislator and senior TDP leader J C Prabhakar Reddy, an Anantapur district court granted him bail in connection with the travels scam.
Along with Prabhakar Reddy, his son J C Asmith Reddy was also granted bail in the case. Both are presently lodged in Kadapa jail and they are expected to be released on Thursday.
Both the father-son duo had been arrested at their residence at Shamshabad in Hyderabad on June and they had been in jail for more than one-and-a-half months. They were also interrogated by the Anantapur police for a couple of days during their judicial remand.
The Road Transport Authority officials filed criminal cases against JC Travels owned by Prabhakar Reddy and son after they seized as many as 154 buses belonging to JC Travels, which they had allegedly bought from Ashok Leyland as scrap and were being run as regular buses.
These buses of BS-III category had been registered illegally in 2018 by producing fake and fabricated documents and were being run in Anantapur.
Of these 154 buses, as many as 50 buses were registered in the name of Jatadhara Industries and 104 buses in the name of C Gopal Reddy.
As many as 33 buses were registered in Karnataka, 15 in Telangana and 101 in Andhra Pradesh.
The police had registered 27 FIRs in Anantapur and three in Kurnool against the JC brothers.