YS Jagan attack case handed over to NIA

Andhra Pradesh, January 04: We all know that the YCP leader YS Jagan was injured by Srinivas, who works in canteen at the airport. Srinivas attacked with a cockfight knife as Jagan was waiting to board flight to Hyderabad. He sustained a bleeding cut on his left upper arm, continued his journey and got admitted in hospital in Hyderabad on 25th October.

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday entrusted to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) the case relating to the knife attack on YSR Congress Party President Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam Airport on October 25.

Now on Friday The High Court of Andhra Pradesh entrusted the case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The court passed the orders on petitions filed by leaders of YSR Congress, seeking a probe by a central agency. They alleged that the state government was not investigating the case properly. Sudhakar Reddy, lawyer of one of the petitioners, told reporters that the court agreed with the contention that a probe by a central agency could bring out the truth.
On December 22 HC gave two weeks time to the Andhra Pradesh government and the Centre to act according to Section 6 of the NIA Act. The Centre took the decision to hand over the case to NIA on December 31. The investigating agency on January 1 registered a case. This was revealed on Friday.

The First Information Report (FIR) was registered on a complaint by an officer of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). The NIA registered an attempt to murder case against Janipalli Srinivas, who was arrested immediately after he attacked the leader of YCP.