Vijay Sai knocks high court door

HYDERABAD: V Vijay Sai Reddy, the financial auditor for Y S Jaganmohan Reddy group of companies, filed a petition in the AP high court and urged it to declare CBI’s plan to file multiple chargesheets in Jagan’s assets case as illegal. Vijay Sai is accused No. 2 in the case and was earlier arrested by CBI.
“Under section 173 of the CrPC, filing of staggered and series of chargesheets before the CBI special court is contrary to the Constitution and the criminal procedure code,” Vijay Sai Reddy said.“By using these series of reports, the probe agency is trying to deny me my legitimate right to get a bail in the case. Hence, I urge the court to declare my continuous detention as illegal and release me from jail,” he said in his petition.
The auditor also sought a direction from the court to CBI to file its complete chargesheet only upon completion of the investigation into the contents of FIR registered in the case. The probe agency cannot delve into the same aspects of the FIR once it files the chargesheet, he said.
“It (CBI) can look into fresh material that it comes across during the investigation. Instead, the CBI is planning to file multiple chargesheets on the same set of allegations that were shown in the FIR and this is contrary to the criminal procedure code,” the auditor said. The case will come up for hearing on Monday before a bench headed by Chief Justice Madan B Lokur.