At last, the Centre has taken up the investigation into the knife attack on YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s life at Visakhapatnam airport on October 25 last.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday ordered transfer of the investigation from the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Andhra Pradesh police to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The high court gave the order following a petition filed by the YSRC seeking investigation by a third party into the attack on Jagan, as he had no faith in the state police.
Interestingly, the NIA took up the investigation by registering the first information report (FIR) on January 1 itself, based on a complaint lodged by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which provides security to the airports.
The state government has already made it clear that it cannot hold the responsibility for the knife attack, as the Vizag airport is under the security cover of the CISF.
Generally, NIA takes up high profile criminal cases having national ramifications, particularly those pertaining to terrorist activities and Maoists. In the present case, the attack on Jagan might even be a conspiracy at a highest level, the NIA has been given the responsibility.
However, the NIA might not be able to achieve much in the investigation if the attacker Srinivas Rao had really done it for the sake of publicity and had no intention of killing Jagan. But if the NIA really digs out a big conspiracy, it will nail the Chandrababu Naidu government.
In any case, entrusting the case to NIA itself is a big political success for Jagan, as it proves the Naidu government has not done the right job in the attempt to murder case!
