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The Supreme Court connected Friday (March 20, 2026) granted regular bail to Muppidi Avinash Reddy, an accused successful the alleged Andhra Pradesh multi-crore liquor ‘scam’.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant invoked plenary powers of the apex tribunal nether Article 142 of the Constitution to assistance Mr. Reddy, represented by elder advocator Siddharth Dave, relief.
The tribunal said the regular bail would proceed during the pendency of the proceedings proceedings successful the case. Senior advocator Siddharth Luthra appeared for the State of Andhra Pradesh.
Mr. Reddy had approached the apex tribunal for anticipatory bail, but had surrendered aft the apex tribunal had earlier asked him to bash so. The tribunal pointed retired that immoderate of the accused person already been granted bail.
The Bench near it to the discretion of the proceedings tribunal to enforce stringent bail conditions connected Mr. Reddy.
The tribunal clarified that the bid would not beryllium treated arsenic a binding precedent. It had not passed immoderate remarks connected the merits of the case.
Mr. Avinash Reddy, a comparative of Kassireddy Rajashekar Reddy (A-1), was charged with playing a captious relation successful collecting kickbacks and distributing wealth successful the scam.
Multiple probe agencies are probing the liquor syndicate scam. The allegation is that the accused persons had caused a nonaccomplishment of astir ₹3,500 crore to the State exchequer during the tenure of the erstwhile government. According to investigators, the accused formed a syndicate, disabled the online liquor income strategy and introduced a manual currency system. They allegedly monitored the proviso and merchantability of liquor done authorities retail outlets.
Some officials of the A.P. State Beverages Corporation Limited allegedly colluded with the syndicate members and resorted to large-scale irregularities portion issuing proviso orders.
