The apex court was hearing a plea filed by 4 BRS lawmakers — including that of BRS MLA Guntakandla Jagadish Reddy — to transfer the trial against Telangana CM, Reddy in the 2015 cash-for-votes scam to a court outside Telangana.The apex court also said that there are floods in Telangana. We are even looking into that aspect. Let the respondents file a reply in this.Senior Advocate Aryama Sundaram, for Jagadish Reddy, said that he is the Home Minister in charge of ACB, ACB prosecution has to report to him. He was in charge of the prosecutioneye witnesses are yet to be examined.After hearing this, the apex court said, “We are sensitive to all this.”The petition, of Jagadish Reddy and others, filed before the apex court, said that a fair trial was almost impossible and could not take place in the state as Revanth Reddy is currently the CM as well as the Home Minister.In the plea filed through advocate P Mohith Rao, Guntakandla Reddy said, “That most of the prosecution witnesses were examined in Chief and the Accused No.1 (Revanth Reddy) being the Chief and Home Minister for the State of Telangana can directly influence the de facto Complainant and officers pressurizing them to defer/ resile from their earlier statements and further to depose false and there is every possibility that the officers/ de facto Complainant will resile/defer from their earlier statements or will depose false under the threat.”Reddy had been arrested after allegedly being caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Telangana on May 31, 2015, for illegal offering Rs 50 lakh to a nominated MLC, Elvis Stephenson, to vote in favour of the TDP candidate. Reddy was a TDP MLA at the time.
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