Former Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy’s quash petition posted by High Court for hearing on June 27

Justice Y. Lakshmana Rao of the Andhra Pradesh High Court posted the quash petition filed by Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy in the case of death of an elderly man Singaiah, during the former’s recent visit to Rentapalla village in Palnadu district, to June 27, 2025. 

Singaiah has allegedly been crushed under the vehicle in which the former CM was going in a rally, for which he was arrayed as A-2 under Section 105 read with 49 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhitha, 2023. 

During the hearing of the petition on Thursday (June 26, 2025), Justice Lakshmana Rao agreed to take it up among fresh matters on Friday (June 27) as Mr. Mohan Reddy’s lawyers pressed for urgent orders for interim protection amidst insistence by the counsels for the State that the matter be put off to July 1.  

The judge observed that perhaps no coercive steps would be taken against the petitioner (Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy) in the meantime. 

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In his plea, Mr. Mohan Reddy submitted that he was innocent and the narration of the facts of the case indicate that the satisfaction of the Nallapadu Station House Officer to register a cognizable offence was not entirely objective. 

He alleged that the sequence of events leading to the registration of the FIR and further alterations thereof showed that the charges were tailored to implicate him with political vendetta and political malice.