ED files charge sheet against Revanth Reddy
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The Enforcement Directorate has filed a charge sheet against Congress MP A. Revanth Reddy and 5 others in a classes court docket right here on Thursday in reference to a case booked against him by the Anti-Corruption Bureau for attempting to bribe an MLC of TRS, Elvis Stephenson, within the election to the Legislative Council from MLAs constituency in May – June 2015.
The charge sheet additionally named current TRS MLA Sandra Venkata Veeraiah, Bishop Harry Sebastian, Rudra Sivakumar Uday Simha, Mathaiah Jerusalem and Vem Krishna Keerthan, whose father Vem Narendar Reddy was the TDP candidate within the election.
The ED initiated investigation within the case beneath the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on the premise of FIR filed by the ACB.
The ACB trapped Mr. Revanth Reddy, Mr. Harry Sebastian and Mr. Uday Simha after they handed over an advance of ₹50 lakh to Mr. Stephenson to lure him to both abstain from voting or vote in favour of the TDP candidate. Mr. Stephenson was supplied a complete bribe of ₹5 crore. Mr. Stephenson lodged a grievance with the ACB which laid the lure. The encounters between Mr. Revenath Reddy and Mr. Stephenson had been secretly audio/video recorded.
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