In a big setback to YSRCP leader and former MLA Vallabhaneni Vamshi, the Supreme Court has set aside the orders of the AP High Court granting him anticipatory bail in the Supreme Court in the illegal mining case. The AP government has approached the Supreme Court to cancel the bail granted to Vamsi in this case.
A bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma has allowed the petition filed by the AP government and ruled against granting anticipatory bail without hearing the arguments of the state government. The bench has ordered a fresh hearing on this petition. The court has made it clear that the case is not going into merits or PT warrants.
The Supreme Court has ordered the state High Court to take a decision based on merits after hearing the arguments of both the parties. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing the AP government, told the court that a counter will be filed within a week.
The Supreme Court has directed the AP High Court to conclude the investigation and give its verdict within four weeks of the government filing its counter. During the YSRCP government, Vallabhaneni Vamsi and his followers looted mines in Bapulapadu, Gannavaram and Vijayawada rural mandals under Gannavaram constituency and caused a loss of more than Rs. 195 crore to the government exchequer.
The Krishna District Mines Officer complained to police that they created forged documents in the names of the individuals without their knowledge and looted natural resources. He said that the investigation conducted by the Vigilance and Enforcement Department revealed Vamsi’s role. Disclosure in the vigilance investigation: Based on this complaint, the Gannavaram police registered a case against Vamsi and others.
Vamsi approached the High Court for anticipatory bail in this case. Former Advocate General and senior advocate S. Sriram made his arguments. The senior police lawyer said that the vigilance investigation had revealed that huge loss was caused to the government exchequer through illegal mining and that a case had been registered based on that report.
It is known that Vamsi was arrested by the police in Hyderabad on February 16. Vamsi, who was in jail for about 137 days in various cases including the attack on the TDP office in Gannavaram, the Satyavardhan kidnapping case, land grabbing, and the fake house title case, was recently released. Vamsi was released from Vijayawada jail on 2nd of this month after getting anticipatory bail in some of the cases registered against him and conditional bail in some other cases.