Chronology
Timeline
Follow the record in sequence; every event opens to its supporting source.
APSBCL retail monopoly and special-margin architecture
The CAG records that Andhra Pradesh granted APSBCL exclusive privilege for retailing IMFL and foreign liquor statewide from 1 October 2019, and later allowed special margin money to be retained by APSBCL. The same CAG passage treats APSBCL borrowings backed by government support as a liability to the State, which is background to the later procurement-manipulation allegations, not a scam finding by CAG.
CID FIR follows Principal Secretary complaint and APSBCL committee record
The Supreme Court's 16 May 2025 order records Crime No.21/2024 at CID Police Station, Mangalagiri, with IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act offences. It reproduces the FIR basis: an APSBCL committee had flagged suppression of established brands, preferential OFS allocation to new brands, a shift from automated OFS to manual processing, and a recommendation for specialised investigation.
Supreme Court upholds Kasireddy arrest-remand posture
In the Kasireddy habeas/remand challenge, the Supreme Court reproduced the written grounds of arrest against Kessireddy Raja Shekhar Reddy, including alleged kickback-driven liquor trade, control over OFS issuance, shell-company transfers, and wrongful loss to APSBCL and the State exchequer. The Court held the grounds of arrest were meaningful and dismissed the appeal, while leaving regular bail open before the competent court.
Supreme Court sends Midhun plea back, then refuses anticipatory bail in connected petitions
On 13 May 2025 the Supreme Court remitted P.V. Midhun Reddy's anticipatory-bail plea to the High Court for fresh consideration and recorded the State's statement that he would not be arrested until then, provided he joined the investigation. On 16 May 2025 the Court declined anticipatory bail in connected SLPs after noting the State's allegation of more than Rs.3,000 crore misappropriation, while warning the investigating agency not to use third-degree methods or coerced statements.
Public-health impact becomes a contested data story
The Wire reported NTR Vaidya Seva/Arogyasri data showing increases in alcohol-related liver, neurological, and kidney treatments between 2014-19 and 2019-24, while also quoting a doctor cautioning that improved reporting, insurance coverage, COVID-era factors, and underlying conditions could affect interpretation. A former YSRCP health minister separately rejected the government's liquor-health allegations as baseless and attributed higher detection to healthcare expansion.
Chargesheet reporting names political recipients but notes court cognizance was pending
Indian Express reported that the CID chargesheet alleged Rs.50-60 crore in monthly bribes between June 2019 and May 2024 and named Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy as an alleged kickback recipient, while also stating he had not been named as an accused and the Vijayawada court had not yet taken cognizance. The same report carried YSRCP's political-vendetta response and allegation that statements were extracted under pressure.
Naidu alleges Rs.10,000 crore scale and ~30,000 suspected deaths
Deccan Chronicle reported Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu's Assembly allegation that excise-sector irregularities during 2019-2024, initially pegged at Rs.3,500 crore, could be as high as Rs.10,000 crore. The same report says Naidu claimed nearly 30,000 people had died suspectedly due to substandard liquor linked to kidney, liver, and heart ailments, and that a Cabinet sub-committee was constituted to probe irregularities and overhaul excise.
ED attaches Rs.441.63 crore and alleges Rs.3,500 crore wrongful loss
ED's official press release says it attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs.441.63 crore under PMLA, initiated the case from the AP CID FIR, alleged disabling of an automated procurement system in favour of manual OFS discretion, and alleged Rs.3,500 crore wrongful loss / kickbacks with a traced money trail of Rs.1,048.45 crore. These remain ED allegations unless adjudicated.
Illicit-liquor enforcement and bail posture remain active
Separate from the procurement scam, AP excise officials reported 14,539 illicitly distilled liquor/jaggery cases in 2024, 6,157 arrests, 1,68,185 litres of ID liquor seized, and Navodayam 2.0. In the court track, New Indian Express reported conditional bail for three accused in January 2026, rejection of Raj Kesireddy's bail then, and an April 2026 e-paper item reporting conditional bail to Raj Kesireddy and A51 Ronak Kumar.
Legal proceedings
Court record lanes
The branches keep separate proceedings and their identifiers distinct; they do not imply a final merits finding.
The court record is best read as a procedural map, not a conviction record. The official Supreme Court PDFs establish the FIR, offences, allegations, bail/remand posture, and Article 22 arrest-ground issue. High Court bail updates are currently from reliable reporting until the official orders are archived.
Crime No.21/2024 — CID Police Station, Mangalagiri
- Registration
- Supreme Court records Crime No.21/2024 at CID Police Station, Mangalagiri, following Principal Secretary Mukesh Kumar Meena's forwarding of APSBCL committee material on 23.09.2024
- Offences
- IPC §§409, 420, 120-B and related provisions, plus Prevention of Corruption Act §§7, 7A, 8, 13(1)(b), 13(2) in the 16 May 2025 SC order
- Core allegation
- Suppression of established brands, preferential allocation to favoured brands, shift from automated to manual OFS, kickbacks, and wrongful loss to APSBCL/State exchequer
- Status
- Investigation/chargesheet stage in archived sources; no conviction or final finding archived
SLP(Crl.) / Criminal Appeal proceedings in 2025
- P.V. Midhun Reddy
- 13 May 2025 order set aside the High Court order and remitted anticipatory bail for fresh consideration, with State statement of no arrest until High Court decision and cooperation requirement
- P. Krishna Mohan Reddy batch
- 16 May 2025 order declined anticipatory bail in connected SLPs while warning the investigating agency against third-degree methods, coercion, or undue pressure
- Kessireddy Raja Shekhar Reddy
- 23 May 2025 judgment dismissed the habeas/remand appeal after holding the written grounds of arrest were meaningful enough; regular bail was left open before the competent court
- Merits caveat
- The Supreme Court observations were in bail/remand/arrest-rights proceedings and do not decide guilt
Reported 2026 bail posture — official PDFs not yet archived
- 30 Jan 2026 report
- New Indian Express reported conditional bail to Sajjala Sridhar Reddy, Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy, and Cherukuri Venkatesh Naidu; it also reported rejection of Raj Kesireddy's bail and Muppidi Avinash Reddy's anticipatory-bail plea
- 8 Apr 2026 e-paper
- New Indian Express e-paper front-page text reported conditional bail to Kesireddy Rajasekhar Reddy alias Raj Kesireddy and A51 Ronak Kumar Jasraj Palgota, including surety and passport conditions
- Gap
- Official AP High Court order PDFs/CNR details for these bail orders are not yet archived, so this thread should be refreshed from court PDFs when located
Directorate of Enforcement, Hyderabad — provisional attachment stage
- Trigger
- ED says it initiated PMLA investigation on the basis of the AP CID FIR/complaint
- Attachment
- 6 Mar 2026 press release announces attachment of movable and immovable properties worth Rs.441.63 crore
- Agency allegation
- ED alleges manual OFS manipulation, favoured brands, kickbacks of about Rs.3,500 crore, and wrongful loss of about Rs.3,500 crore to the State exchequer
- Money trail
- ED says investigation has so far revealed Rs.1,048.45 crore in kickback/money-trail elements
- Status
- Attachment and investigation stage; adjudication/appeal outcome not archived
Evidence boundary
Supported and not established
The line matters: archived records can support a finding without resolving every allegation, motive, or final outcome.
What the sources support
- Official CAG and Supreme Court records support the APSBCL policy/procurement context: exclusive state retail through APSBCL, committee observations about brand suppression and OFS manipulation, and Crime No.21/2024 at CID Police Station, Mangalagiri.
- Official Supreme Court records support that multiple bail/remand proceedings arose from the same FIR and that courts treated the allegations as serious economic-offence allegations while leaving merits for trial.
- Official ED records support the existence of a PMLA investigation, a provisional attachment order for Rs.441.63 crore, and ED's allegation of about Rs.3,500 crore wrongful loss/kickbacks with a traced money trail of Rs.1,048.45 crore.
- The archived record supports the existence of the broader ~30,000 suspected-deaths allegation as a political/Assembly claim reported by Deccan Chronicle; it does not by itself prove the count or medical causation.
- The archived record supports broader social-impact signals: illicit-liquor enforcement volumes in 2024 and health-insurance data reporting increases in alcohol-related treatment categories, with contemporaneous cautions and political rebuttals.
What remains unresolved
- No final trial-court judgment, conviction, acquittal, or charge-framing order is archived for Crime No.21/2024.
- The full CID/SIT chargesheets, annexures, witness statements, forensic accounting reports, and trial-court docket are not archived; newspaper reports about chargesheets are secondary until those filings are obtained.
- The exchequer-loss numbers are agency allegations and vary by source: the Supreme Court records the State's more-than-Rs.3,000-crore submission, while ED alleges about Rs.3,500 crore loss/kickbacks and also refers to the CID complaint's Rs.4,000-crore figure.
- The archived sources do not establish that the procurement scam caused ~30,000 deaths or any specific medical condition; death and health-effect claims need death-registration data, medical-cause coding, autopsy/toxicology where relevant, and epidemiological controls.
- Official AP High Court PDFs for the 2026 bail orders are not yet archived; current bail posture relies partly on New Indian Express reports and e-paper text.
- Political motive, final beneficiaries, exact public-loss calculation, and recoverability of alleged proceeds are not established by a final court finding in the archived material.