VIJAYAWADA: The high court on Wednesday dismissed the petitions filed by T Gangi Reddy and G Uma Shankar Reddy, the accused in YS Vivekananda Reddy murder case, challenging the pardon given to another co-accused, Shaik Dastagiri, by the chief judicial magistrate and principal assistant sessions judge in Kadapa. The high court said there is no legal infirmity in the order given by the lower court.
Gangi and Uma Shankar had moved the high court challenging the granting of pardon to Dastagiri, who turned approver in the case. Senior counsels S Niranjan Reddy and B Adinarayana Rao argued that the lower court erred in its decision without considering the facts and circumstances. A pardon can only be given when there is no other evidence available to prove the guilt of the accused but in the present case the CBI claims to have collected other evidence and also recorded the statement of watchman Rangaiah as a witness, they said.
