HC adjourns Brahmananda Reddy bail plea to Nov 5

The Andhra Pradesh High Court today adjourned the case to November 5 on the bail petition of suspended IRAS officer K V Brahmananda Reddy.

Hearing on the bail application was complete today and the court adjourned the case to November 5 for judgment.
Brahmananda Reddy is in the Chanchalguda Prison in connection with the Vanpic case. Reddy, the Indian Railway Accounts Service official was arrested on May 16 from his house in Habsiguda in Hyderabad city. He served as special secretary in the Infrastructure Department which controversial deals such as Vanpic were struck.

He was the MD, AP Aviation Corporation, which owned the Bell copter that crashed in the Nallamala forests, killing YSR on September 2, 2009. He was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) regarding the incident, the main query being why he did not arrange for the safer Augusta Westland helicopter for YSR.
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