In yet another major setback to YSR Congress President Jaganmohan Reddy, the Andhra Pradesh high court on Saturday remanded him to a Central Bureau of Investigation's custody for five days while dismissing his petition for declaring his arrest as illegal.
The Andhra Pradesh high court will give its verdict on Saturday on the Central Bureau of Investigation's petition seeking the custody of YSR Congress president Jagan Mohan Reddy. The court will also pass its judgement on a quash petition challenging Jagan's arrest on charges of corruption and other economic offences.
In a major operation on Thursday, the Central Bureau of Investigation officer arrested Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister M Venkatramana in the disproportionate assets case involving YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy.
Journalists and political parties alike have criticised the CBI move to freeze the bank accounts of the newspaper and TV channel. Mohammed Siddique reports
Jagan used to sit in the treasury bench next to Rahul Gandhi when he was a Congress MP. The shift, the order for which was issued by the Speaker's Office on Wednesday, came following Jagan's victory in the recent Kadapa bye-election.
The arson in Amalapuram, headquarters of the new district, on Tuesday allegedly by those opposed to the name change is, thus, suspected by local political observers to be a result of 'political machinations' of 'vested interests.'
Jailed YSR Congress leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Friday moved the Andhra Pradesh high court seeking bail in connection with an alleged case of disproportionate assets involving him.
A Central Bureau of Investigation court on Wednesday dismissed the bail plea of YSR Congress leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in the alleged disproportionate assets case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the quid pro quo investment case against YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, filed one more supplementary chargesheet on Monday.
The Telugu Desam Party and other opposition parties have gone for the jugular as the ministers in the dock were all key portfolio holders under YS Rajashekhar Reddy regime. Mohammed Siddique reports.
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday froze fixed deposits worth more than Rs 34 crore of a media firm owned by jailed YSR Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy in connection with the money laundering probe against him and others.
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the bail plea of YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy in a corruption case, saying his release from jail will hamper the investigation of the "high magnitude" case.
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday issued attachment orders on properties worth Rs 51 crore in its money laundering probe against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy and his associates.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar rejected the resignations submitted by 13 MPs from Andhra Pradesh, including ten from Congress and two of YSR Congress, against the decision on Telangana, holding these were "not voluntary or genuine". The YSR Congress MPs included party chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
The bill seeks to reserve one-third of all seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies.
Jailed YSR Congress leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Monday moved a special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Hyderabad with a plea to take up framing of charges and trial of all the chargesheets filed in connection with the disproportionate assets case against him together.
Vijay Sai Reddy is facing serious charges, which include cheating and money laundering. Mohammed Siddique reports.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, probing alleged quid pro quo deals case involving YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, on requested a local court to take cognisance of the fresh charge sheet filed in the case and sought issuance of summons against the accused.
Andhra Pradesh Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao resigned late on Tuesday night, a day after CBI named him as an accused in the disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy.
With no respite in sight, the All India Congress Committee is planning on calling a meeting of all leaders from Andhra Pradesh to discuss the proposal to set up a Rayal-Telangana state.
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition of YSR Congress leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy challenging his arrest in a disproportionate assets case.
Scores of Telangana Rashtra Samithi workers and activists of separate statehood groups were on Monday taken into preventive custody at different places when they tried to stop the convoy of YSR Congress Honorary President Y S Vijayamma who was on her way to hold a 'dharna' in support of weavers' problem in Sircilla of Karimnagar district.
YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has proved that he was the real heir to the political legacy of his father late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy.
In yet another setback for YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Enforcement Directorate has decided to take possession of his properties worth Rs 122 crore.
An arrest would not only be a major embarrassment, but would also stall all proceedings of Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Dimple Yadav, who won unopposed the bye-election to Kannauj seat in Uttar Pradesh, took oath in Hindi and in the name of God. Reddy, who had quit the Lok Sabha as a Congress member, was re-elected from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh as a candidate of the YSR Congress
A legislator from his native Chittoor district in the Rayalaseema region of the state, 50-year-old Reddy will have to also use all his political acumen to take on the challenge posed by Congress' rebel Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
As the race for Raisina Hill heats up, All India Majlis-e Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi met YSR Congress Party chief Jaganmohan Reddy in Hyderabad's Chanchalguda jail, and urged him to support UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee for the coveted post of President of India.
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president and city member of Parliament Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday met jailed YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and sought his party's support for United Progressive Alliance Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee in the next month's election for the top Constitutional post.
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Thursday dismissed the regular bail petition of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets case involving him. The AP high court had on December 24 dismissed the statutory bail plea of Jagan.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the corruption charges against YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, on Sunday continued to question him as part of his two-day custodial interrogation that will end on Sunday evening.
YSR Congress Chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has moved the Andhra Pradesh High Court seeking direction to the state government and jail authorities to allow him to communicate his statements through media in view of the forthcoming by-elections on June 12.
Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation to appear before it in Hyderabad in connection with the alleged disproportionate assets case involving YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, on June 7.
YSR Congress president YS Jaganmohan Reddy's hopes of an early release from jail on bail were dashed with the Central Bureau of Investigation special court in Hyderabad rejecting his bail plea on Friday.
The Rajya Sabha elections have again highlighted dissension and lack of cohesion in the opposition ranks from Maharashtra to Karnataka and Haryana.
The company on Wednesday said P V Ramprasad Reddy would resign as executive chairman, while Nithyananda would also step down from his post.
A Central Bureau of Investigation court in Hyderabad sent Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao to judicial custody till June 7 even as he applied for bail on health grounds.
The special Central Bureau of Investigation court at Nampally has rejected the bail plea filed by Jaganmohan Reddy while granting the judicial custody of the Kadapa MP till June 11.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday sought 14-day custody of Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy, saying it needed to further question him in the disproportionate assets case.
The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth Rs 143.74 crore in connection with its probe in the money laundering case against YSR Congress party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy. The attachment order, under criminal provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, is the third by the agency after it issued two separate attachment orders of Rs 51 crore and Rs 71 crore earlier, in this case.