In a significant relief to YSR Congress Party MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy from the Macherla assembly constituency in Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh, the state high court on Tuesday granted him anticipatory bail in three additional cases filed against him.
The high court ordered that the police should not take any action against the MLA in any case until the counting of votes is completed in the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections on June 5.
On Monday, Pinnelli filed a fresh bail petition in the high court following the police filing three separate cases against him, shortly after he received relief from the court in the EVM smashing case four days earlier.
In an emergency petition, Pinnelli alleged that the police were trying to implicate him in one case or another to ensure he would be in jail at the time of vote counting on June 4. The bail petition was scheduled to come before the court later that day.
The latest cases filed against the YSRCP MLA include an attack on Telugu Desam Party agent M Seshagiri Rao and the abuse of a woman who protested his EVM smashing at the Palwaigate polling booth on May 13.
Additionally, the Mangalagiri police registered a zero FIR following a directive from the Director General of Police on a complaint filed by TDP activist Nomula Manikyala Rao, who belongs to the MLA’s own village, Kandlakunta, in Veldurthi mandal of Palnadu district.
The TDP activist alleged that Pinnelli had engaged four persons to kill him because he had worked as a polling agent in the village. The police registered a case against the MLA and submitted it to the court.
