At last, senior YSR Congress party leader and former Bapatla MP Nandigam Suresh got bail in the case pertaining to the attack on the Telugu Desam Party office at Mangalagiri three years ago.
A division bench of the state high court on Friday granted conditional bail to Suresh, who was arrested in Hyderabad by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) police last month and has since been lodged in Guntur central jail.
Earlier, the Mangalagiri court had rejected his bail petition twice and extended his judicial remand. It also granted two-day police custody of Suresh and the CID authorities questioned him before sending him to jail on judicial remand.
As the Mangalagiri court extended his judicial remand till October 17, the former MP moved the high court seeking bail. Finally on Friday, the high court granted him conditional bail.
Meanwhile, the state high court also gave a big relief to YSRCP general secretary and former advisor Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy in the same case of attack on the TDP office.
After hearing the arguments on Sajjala’s petition seeking anticipatory bail, the high court directed the police not to take any coercive and hasty action against Sajjala till October 25, when the petition will be heard again.
The counsel for the CID police told the court that the attack on the TDP office was done as per the directions of Sajjala, who was then in the Tadepalli camp office, as per the statements given by the other accused.
Sajjala’s counsel, however, produced media clippings as evidence stating that Sajjala was at Porumamilla, about 600 km away from Mangalagiri.
After the government’s counsel said he would have to examine the statement of the accused, the court deferred the case to October 25.