Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president A. Revanth Reddy challenging an order of ACB special court dismissing his request for simultaneous cross-examination of all seven witnesses in the cash-for-vote scam case.
A division bench of the Supreme Court of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and S.V.N. Bhatti suggested Mr. Reddy to approach Telangana High Court where he had filed the criminal revision case seeking to set aside the ACB special court order. The matter pertains to the case of cash-for-vote reported in 2015.
Mr. Reddy maintained that if the authorities wanted to prosecute him on charge of corruption or offering bribe, they should have invoked the Representation of People Act and not the PC Act. The division bench of the SC posted this petition to December 14 for detailed hearing.
