REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 174 OF 2004

Pantangi Balarama Venkata Ganesh

…. Appellant

Versus

State of Andhra Pradesh

…. Respondent

WITH

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 173 OF 2004

State through C.B.I.

…. Appellant

Versus

Vistaria Prakash

…. Respondent

J U D G M E N T

S.B. SINHA, J.

1.

Magunta Subbarama Reddy (for short Subbarama Reddy) was a

Member of Parliament from Ongole Constituency in the State of Andhra

Pradesh. He had a gun man, named Ch. Venkataratnam. Subbarama Reddy

was a Philanthropist. He established 24 Colleges in the Prakasam and

Nellore Districts of Andhra Pradesh. He otherwise donated a huge amount

to a number of institutions. He was a resident of Bhagyanagar in the town on

Ongole.

2.

Subbarama Reddy reached Ongole on 1^st December, 1995. He went to

a place known as Markapur on the same date to attend a function. He was to

attend two more functions in the afternoon in the town of Ongole. PWs. 2

and 3 came to invite him to attend the functions to be held at Islampet in the

town of Ongole. While he was in his bed room, PWs. 1 to 3 went inside the

bedroom and at the same time PW 13 als