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CBI has filed charge sheet against 13 accused persons for
conspiracy, murder and other offences before the court of
the Additional Judicial magistrate First class, Anantpur,
Andhra Pradesh in the Paritala Ravindra murder case. The charge
sheet has been filed under Sections 120-B r/w Sections 147,
148,149,201, 212,302,307,324, 326, 397 IPC and section 25(1B)
(a) and Section 27 of the Arms Act 1959 and Section 3 and
5 of The Explosives Substances Act, 1908 against the accused
persons. The investigation has been completed within 82 days
and after garnering sufficient evidence by way of eyewitnesses,
material objects and documents the investigative agency yesterday
filed the chagesheet. The chargesheeted are: Gangula Suryanarayana
Reddy @ Suri, Srinivasa Reddy, Panduga Narayana Reddy, Vallupalli
Rekhamaiah, Bajana Ranganayakulu, Alakunta Kondaiah, Vadde
Srinivasalu, Medimi Obi Reddy, K.Rama Mohana Reddy, Gali Venkatarami
Reddy, Tarugu Peddi Reddy, Vanna Hanumantha Reddy and Thopudurthi
Konda Reddy
The investigation conducted by CBI revealed that Gangula
Suryanarayana Reddy @ Suri, a convict lodged in the Cheralapalli
Jail hatched a criminal conspiracy with the help of the above
mentioned accused persons to eliminate Paritala Ravindra,
MLA Penukonda Constituency, whom accused Suryanarayana Reddy
considered as responsible for the killings of his father G.Narayana
Reddy, during the year 1983 and other family members, in a
TV Bomb Blast, during the year 1993.
In furtherance to the said conspiracy, after the fiasco in
two attempts made on the life of Paritala Ravindra, the accused
persons tracked Paritala Ravindra and on 24.1.05 morning Rekhamaiah,
Narayana Reddy, and Julakanti Srinivasa Reddy went to TDP
office Anantapur where Paritala Ravindra was attending the
general body meeting and shot him dead when he came out of
the meeting. At the time of the shoot out, as pre planned,
Ranganayakulu, Vadde Konda and Vadde Seena, threw bombs in
front of the TDP office. They also shot dead Mehaboob Basha,
gunman of Paritala Ravindra and Eswaraiah, a TDP worker apart
from injuring four gunmen and three TDP supporters. Thereafter,
all the accused persons escaped from the scene. While running
away, they also fired at and snatched a carbine and a pistol
from two gunmen available at the spot.
On 30.1.2005, one of the assailants, Vallupalli Rekhamaiah,
was arrested and based on his disclosure, the pistol (used
by Narayana Reddy for the killing) which was thrown by him
and four live rounds were recovered. On 2.2.05 five more accused
persons viz. Panduga Narayana Reddy, Obi Reddy, Ranganayakulu,
Vadde Konda and Vadde Seena, were arrested. Based on the disclosure
of Ranganayakulu, three live bombs were recovered. Similarly,
based on the disclosures of Panduga Narayana Reddy and Obi
Reddy, one 9 mm carbine (used by Rekhamaiah to fire), one
9 mm service Carbine (snatched from P.V.Subbiah, ARPC), one
6-chambered .32 revolver (which was in the possession of Srinivasa
Reddy at the time of the incident) and 6 live cartridges of
.32 caliber were recovered. Accused Julakanti Srinivasa Reddy
is still at large.
After CBI took over the investigation, the accused arrested
by the local police viz Panduga Narayana Redy, Obi Reddy,
Ranganayakulu, Vadde Konda and Vadde Seena, were taken on
police custody and thoroughly interrogated. During the custodial
interrogation, all the accused admitted to have taken part
in the murders. Further, during the course of investigation,
K.Ram Mohan Reddy, Gali Venkatarami Reddy, Vistili Anand Kumar
Reddy, Taragu Peddi Reddy, Vanna Hanumantha Reddy, Tagarakunta
Konda Reddy were arrested by CBI.
Apart from this, the main conspirator, Gangula Suryanarayana
Reddy @ Suri was also taken into police custody and interrogated.
All the accused persons, during interrogation, admitted their
involvement as well as the roles played by other accomplices.
As part of investigation, exhumation and re-autopsy of the
dead bodies of the deceased persons including that of Paritala
Ravindra were done. During re-postmortem examination on the
dead body of Paritala Ravindra 9 fragmented/deformed projectiles
were recovered. These projectiles as well as the weapons were
subjected to scientific examination. During investigation,
five vehicles used by the accused persons in the commission
of the crime were also seized.
Paritala Ravindra, MLA, Penukonda constituency of Andhra
Pradesh was killed in a broad day- light shoot –out
in front of the TDP office, Anantpur on 24.01.05 where he
had gone to attend a general body meeting of his party. An
FIR was registered by the Town Police Station, Anantpur on
24.01.05. Based on a request from the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh,
the investigation of the case was taken over by CBI on 3.2.2005
by reregistering the case. A special team of CBI was constituted
and a thorough probe was conducted into the various allegations
including that of political rivalry.
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