Police crack case of attack on YS Jagan, key accused, TDP social media head arrested, Bonda goes underground

VIJAYAWADA: The Vijayawada Police have cracked the murder attempt case on YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and took into custody the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) social media head and an unknown number of the accused for questioning.

Meanwhile, Vijayawada Central TDP leader Bonda Uma Maheswara Rao whose hand was suspected in the case said to have gone underground fearing imminent arrest by the SIT.

While the SIT would soon be coming up with a detailed statement on the way the TDP leaders planned the stone attack on the Chief Minister while he was on his ‘Mementha Siddham’ Bus Yatra in Vijayawada, the SIT also determined the real attacker that threw the stone. During interrogation, the Police also concluded the support that the accused had in completing the task.

Police also prepared a watertight case with the help of scientific evidence, call data, video footage, and other vital pieces of evidence. The SIT interrogated more than 60 persons and investigated the case from all angles.

During the investigation, the police realised that the TDP social media in-charge and a local TDP leader had played an important role in the attack. While the TDP social media in-charge was arrested the other leader had gone incommunicado.

Meanwhile, TDP politburo member Bonda Umamaheswara Rao in an interview with a Telugu news channel has said that he had nothing to do with the attack on YS Jagan. “It seems that the YSRCP is trying to falsely implicate me in the case. They are forcing the accused to take my name. They have picked some boys from the Vaddera colony in Ajith Singh Nagar and are torturing them to take my name,” he said.

Demanding an inquiry by the CBI, Umamaheswara Rao said that the police earlier also tried to implicate TDP leaders in the murder case of YS Vivekananda Reddy and Kodi Kathi case in Vizag.