Judicial overreach in democracy is unacceptable, gag order a danger: Jagan’s party on Amaravati case

YSRC general secretary and Parliamentary party leader V Vijay Sai Reddy questioned “the overreach of the high court order” stalling the probe into the alleged land scam in Amaravati and gagging the media from reporting the contents of the FIR registered by the ACB.

Under his leadership, the 27 YSRCP MPs demanded a CBI probe into the alleged land scam and Andhra Fiber net scam on regular basis in both Houses of Parliament and protested in Parliament premises.

Vijay Sai Reddy said, “The YSR Congress Party came to power on 3 planks. The first one is special category status and justice to the people of Andhra Pradesh with respect to the implementation of the promises of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014. The second one is the welfare of the common people of Andhra Pradesh and un-earthing the scams. Bound by the 3rd plank, the police, after thorough investigation into the land scam in the new capital of Amaravathi, found irregularities and filed an
FIR which contains the names of children of former Advocate General of AP.”

“The AP police were given full independence and authority to bring the scam to light and put the wrongdoers in Jail and the AP police were doing a stellar job”, Reddy said. He added, “But the High court
has stayed the inquiry and investigation by the AP Police into the scam and issued a gag order to the effect that no electric or print news item be published with respect to the FIR un-earthing the scam and
also that the FIR shall not be made public in any electronic, print or social media.”

Vijay Sai Reddy said, “The Gag order is unconstitutional as it violates Article 14 of the Constitution which gives us the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression but also dangerous to India as a democracy.”