Making the fourth accused Dastagir in Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy murder case a witness was one of the Himalayan blunders committed by CBI in the investigation and filing of the charge-sheet, said advocate Enuganti Uma Maheshwar Rao on Friday.
He was presenting arguments seeking anticipatory bail for Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy in the Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy murder case before Justice M. Laxman of Telangana High Court. The noted criminal lawyer, presenting his contentions for over five hours barring 30-minute break for lunch, raised several legal lacunae in the charge sheet filed by the CBI.
It was strange that CBI had presented three statements of Dastagir confessing to the killing of Vivekananda Reddy in the trial court but never arrested him, he said. Unless the court tendered the accused pardon, the investigators cannot claim him to be a witness, Mr. Rao argued stating that this was a glaring mistake by CBI in the case.
