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.
Courts distinguish default bail from regular bail
The High Court set aside A31-A33's 6 September default-bail orders after holding that the police reports dated 19 July and 11 August 2025 were timely and sufficient for the statutory-bail question. The Supreme Court granted interim surrender protection on 26 November, then dismissed the challenges on 21 January while continuing protection to allow regular-bail applications. The full chargesheets are not part of this archive.
Procurement bail outcomes differ by petitioner
The High Court granted regular bail to Sajjala Sridhar Reddy, Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy and Cherukuru Venkatesh Naidu on 29 January while refusing Kessireddy's regular bail; a separate order refused Muppidi Avinash Reddy anticipatory bail. On 12 February, Kessireddy withdrew his Supreme Court petition with liberty to approach the trial court or High Court at an appropriate stage.
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.
Further regular-bail orders in the procurement case
The archived High Court texts grant regular bail to Eddala Naveen Krishna, M. Balaji Kumar Yadav and Booneti Chanakya on 6 March; Anil Chokhara on 24 March; and Kessireddy and Ronak Kumar Jasraj Palgota on 7 April. Each order imposes conditions. Procurement-case bail does not resolve custody or bail in the separate transport case.
Illicit-liquor enforcement figures concern a separate category of cases
Separate from the procurement and transport proceedings, 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. These aggregate enforcement figures are not counts of accused or offences in either CID liquor case.
ED arrests in the separate liquor transport-tender investigation
ED's 12 June release says it arrested Kessireddy Raja Shekhar Reddy and Donthireddy Vasudeva Reddy on 11 June in the transport-tender PMLA investigation. It cites a CID complaint alleging Rs.195.33 crore loss and alleges inflated transport rates and favoured contractors. These are agency allegations in the transport branch; the amount is not added to the procurement-case totals.
Satyaprasad gets anticipatory bail; trial court retains the pardon decision
In Crl.P.No.12048/2025 (CNR APHC010626902025), the AP High Court granted anticipatory bail to Dodda Venkata Satya Prasad, A3 in Crime No.21/2024. The order reproduces investigators' written instructions recording his cooperation and earlier statements, including a magistrate statement on 25 February 2025. It leaves the pardon application to the trial court independently. This bail order did not itself make him an approver. The archived text is an Indian Kanoon mirror; the official PDF is still sought.
A31-A33 obtain regular bail after the default-bail litigation
The High Court granted conditional regular bail to K. Dhananjaya Reddy, P. Krishna Mohan Reddy and Balaji Govindappa in Crl.P.3700, 3701 and 3702/2026. The order records the earlier default-bail and Supreme Court proceedings and confines its observations to bail.
Transport remand quashed; Supreme Court issues notice on State appeals
The High Court quashed the 20 July ACB-court remand orders concerning Kessireddy and Vasudeva for arrest-procedure defects while allowing the transport investigation to continue. On 31 August, the Supreme Court issued notice in the State's SLP(Crl.)15850-15851/2026, returnable on 22 September. That short order contains no stay or final decision on the State's challenge.
Three anticipatory-bail pleas refused in transport Crime No.11/2026
The High Court dismissed the separate petitions of Kessireddy (A4; Crl.P.3077/2026), Vasudeva (A1; Crl.P.5763/2026) and Tukekula Eswar Kiran Kumar Reddy (A3; Crl.P.4189/2026). It left the dispute over overlapping procurement and transport FIRs for other proceedings and confined its observations to bail. Two PDF copies and one legal-mirror text are archived.
NTV reports approver plea allowed and statement listed for 18 September
NTV Telugu reported that the court allowed A3 Satyaprasad's request to become an approver and directed that his statement be recorded on 18 September. Its report also covers transport-related proceedings and does not attach the pardon order. The precise legal terms of any pardon remain unverified here. This is a machine-only English paraphrase of Telugu reporting.
Supreme Court refuses transport anticipatory bail; regular bail remains open
The official order in SLP(Crl.)17133 and 17121/2026 declines anticipatory bail, directs expeditious execution of production warrants and permits subsequent regular-bail applications. It requires those applications to be decided independently, without influence from the anticipatory-bail observations. The official PDF is linked below.
Satyaprasad's fresh court statement reported; next hearing listed for 21 September
Andhra Jyothy reports that Vijayawada ACB judge L. Tejovati recorded Satyaprasad's statement on 18 September and adjourned the matter to 21 September. The newspaper attributes to him an allegation that about Rs.3,200 crore in kickbacks reached former Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy through intermediaries. This is a machine-only English paraphrase of the Telugu report, not a verified transcript or a judicial finding. The deposition and signed pardon order have not been obtained, and this review has not verified a new September CID chargesheet.
Legal proceedings
Court record lanes
The branches keep separate proceedings and their identifiers distinct; they do not imply a final merits finding.
Reviewed through 19 September 2026: 25 retrieved decisions cover procurement Crime No.21/2024 and transport Crime No.11/2026. Downloads distinguish official Supreme Court PDFs, High Court PDF copies and legal-mirror texts. The latest transport order is the Supreme Court's 10 September refusal of anticipatory bail; the separate State remand appeal has notice returnable on 22 September. No final guilt finding is established by this collection.
25 retrieved decisions across the procurement and transport cases
- Coverage
- 19 procurement decisions and six transport decisions, reviewed through 19 September 2026. Common orders covering connected petitions are counted once.
- Formats
- 12 PDFs: nine downloaded from the Supreme Court and three High Court PDF copies from LiveLaw/CaseOn. Another 13 decisions are archived Indian Kanoon court texts; they are not original signed PDFs.
- Reading guide
- Every decision below has its original publisher/court link and a local download. The ZIP includes these documents, original HTML for text fallbacks, source manifests, a case index and SHA-256 checksums.
- Limits
- This is the retrieved collection, not a certified or complete court file. The chargesheets, trial-court pardon order, September deposition and remaining trial-court orders are still sought. Bail and remand decisions do not establish guilt.
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
- Chargesheets and trial court
- The 19 November 2025 High Court ruling identifies police reports dated 19 July and 11 August 2025 and the Special Judge for SPE & ACB Cases-cum-III Additional District Judge, Vijayawada. Full chargesheets and the current trial docket remain unarchived.
Initial anticipatory-bail and arrest/remand decisions
- 7 May 2025 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.4837, 4838 & 5009/2025. K. Dhananjaya Reddy, P. Krishna Mohan Reddy and Balaji Govindappa: Anticipatory bail refused; observations confined to bail.
- 13 May 2025 · Supreme Court
- SLP(Crl.)5218/2025. P. V. Midhun Reddy: Anticipatory-bail plea remitted to the High Court for fresh consideration; no-arrest protection pending that decision, subject to cooperation.
- 16 May 2025 · Supreme Court
- SLP(Crl.)7532, 7533 & 7534/2025; 2025 INSC 725. P. Krishna Mohan Reddy and connected petitioners: Anticipatory bail refused in SLP(Crl.)7532 and 7533/2025; investigators warned against coercion and third-degree methods. In 7534/2025, the already-arrested petitioner was left to seek regular bail on its own merits.
- 23 May 2025 · Supreme Court
- Crl.A.2808/2025 from SLP(Crl.)7746/2025, with SLP(Crl.)5691/2025; 2025 INSC 768. Kasireddy Upender Reddy: Habeas/remand challenge concerning Kessireddy Raja Shekhar Reddy dismissed; regular bail left open.
- 15 Jul 2025 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.2904/2025. P. V. Midhun Reddy (A4): Anticipatory bail refused after the Supreme Court remand.
Independent bail hearings and transit protection
- 15 Oct 2025 · Supreme Court
- Diary 58657/2025; arising from IA2/2025 in Crl.P.10331/2025. Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy: His bail application and the State's separate A4 bail-cancellation application must be heard independently on their merits; no bail grant in this order.
- 31 Dec 2025 · Bombay High Court
- ABA3573/2025; 2025:BHC-AS:58003. Chetankumar Jasraj Palgota: Ten days' transit anticipatory protection from upload on 1 January 2026 to approach the competent court; no merits decision.
Chargesheet timing, surrender protection and later regular bail
- 19 Nov 2025 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.9363, 9364 & 9365/2025. State v K. Dhananjaya Reddy and others (A31-A33): Default-bail orders of 6 September in Crl.M.P.1446, 1447 and 1467/2025 set aside. The 19 July police report and 11 August supplementary report were held timely and sufficient for the statutory-bail question; this was not a guilt finding.
- 26 Nov 2025 · Supreme Court
- SLP(Crl.)18853, 18836 & 18840/2025. Balaji Govindappa and connected petitioners: Notice issued; surrender exemption granted meanwhile, subject to the trial court's conditions.
- 21 Jan 2026 · Supreme Court
- SLP(Crl.)18853, 18836 & 18840/2025. Balaji Govindappa and connected petitioners: Challenges to the default-bail reversal dismissed. Interim protection continued to permit regular-bail applications and further High Court recourse; regular bail left to the merits.
- 27 Jul 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.3700, 3701 & 3702/2026; CNR APHC010235472026. K. Dhananjaya Reddy, P. Krishna Mohan Reddy and Balaji Govindappa (A31-A33): Regular bail granted with conditions after the earlier default-bail litigation.
January refusals and March–April regular bail
- 29 Jan 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.11425, 12165, 12960 & 13101/2025. Kessireddy (A1), Sajjala Sridhar Reddy (A6), Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy (A38), Cherukuru Venkatesh Naidu (A34): Kessireddy's regular bail refused; regular bail granted to the other three petitioners, subject to conditions.
- 29 Jan 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.10012/2025; CNR APHC010510512025. Muppidi Avinash Reddy (A7): Anticipatory bail refused.
- 12 Feb 2026 · Supreme Court
- SLP(Crl.)1868/2026. Kessireddy Rajasekhar Reddy: Petition against the 29 January refusal withdrawn with liberty to approach the trial court or High Court at an appropriate stage.
- 6 Mar 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.13503 & 13504/2025 and 27/2026. Eddala Naveen Krishna (A36), M. Balaji Kumar Yadav (A35), Booneti Chanakya (A8): Regular bail granted with conditions.
- 24 Mar 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.1238/2026. Anil Chokhara (A49): Regular bail granted with conditions; observations confined to the bail application.
- 7 Apr 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.2235 & 1248/2026; CNR APHC010144632026. Kessireddy Rajasekhar Reddy (A1) and Ronak Kumar Jasraj Palgota (A51): Regular bail granted with conditions in procurement Crime No.21/2024. This order does not grant bail in transport Crime No.11/2026.
Satyaprasad — bail, intervention and reported pardon
- 24 Feb 2026 · AP High Court
- IA1/2025 & IASR96274/2025 in Crl.P.12048/2025. Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy and Dasari Suvarna Raju: Applications to intervene in Satyaprasad's anticipatory-bail matter dismissed as not maintainable; a possible pardon challenge was premature. This is not a pardon order.
- 6 Jul 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.12048/2025; CNR APHC010626902025. Dodda Venkata Satya Prasad (A3): Anticipatory bail granted; the trial court must decide the pardon application independently. This bail order did not itself confer approver status.
- 10 September report
- NTV reported that the approver plea was allowed and a statement listed for 18 September. The signed pardon order and its conditions remain unarchived.
- 18 September statement
- Andhra Jyothy's 19 September report describes a statement before the Vijayawada ACB court and an adjournment to 21 September. The deposition is not archived; the Telugu account is a machine-only English paraphrase, not a judicial finding.
Crime No.11/2026 — July remand, August quashing and State appeal
- Separate registration
- CID Police Station, Mangalagiri, 10 February 2026, concerning APSBCL transport tenders. Vasudeva is A1, Tukekula A3 and Kessireddy A4 in this branch; accused numbers differ from procurement Crime No.21/2024.
- 13 Aug 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.6456, 6463 & 6467/2026; CNR APHC010395912026. Kessireddy (transport A4) and Donthireddy Vasudeva Reddy (transport A1): 20 July ACB-court remand orders quashed for arrest-procedure defects; release directed in this case, with investigation continuing. Crl.P.6456 and 6463 allowed; 6467 dismissed because no further order was needed.
- 31 Aug 2026 · Supreme Court
- SLP(Crl.)15850-15851/2026; Diary 51585/2026. State of Andhra Pradesh v Kessireddy Rajasekhar Reddy and another: Notice issued on the State's challenges to the 13 August remand ruling, returnable on 22 September 2026. This order neither stays nor finally decides that ruling.
Three High Court refusals and the Supreme Court order
- 7 Sep 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.3077/2026; CNR APHC010204822026. Kessireddy Rajasekhar Reddy (A4): Anticipatory bail refused; whether the procurement and transport FIRs overlap left for separate proceedings. Observations confined to bail.
- 7 Sep 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.5763/2026; CNR APHC010357792026. Donthireddy Vasudeva Reddy (A1): Anticipatory bail refused; observations confined to bail, without resolving the FIR-overlap dispute.
- 7 Sep 2026 · AP High Court
- Crl.P.4189/2026; CNR APHC010265662026. Tukekula Eswar Kiran Kumar Reddy (A3): Anticipatory bail refused; observations confined to bail, without resolving the FIR-overlap dispute.
- 10 Sep 2026 · Supreme Court
- SLP(Crl.)17133 & 17121/2026; Diary 55352/2026 for 17133. Kessireddy Rajasekhar Reddy and connected petitioner: Anticipatory bail refused; production warrants to be executed expeditiously. Regular bail may then be sought and must be considered independently of the anticipatory-bail observations.
Separate procurement and transport PMLA investigations
- 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
- Transport arrests
- ED's 12 June 2026 release records Kessireddy and Vasudeva's arrests on 11 June in the transport investigation and alleges Rs.195.33 crore loss. This is not an adjudicated amount and is not added to the procurement figures.
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.
- The archived July High Court text establishes Satyaprasad's anticipatory bail and leaves pardon to the trial court. September Telugu reports describe a later approver development and fresh statement; those reports establish what was reported, not the truth of the accusations.
- Archived High Court decisions distinguish the transport and procurement branches. The official Supreme Court order of 10 September 2026 refuses anticipatory bail in the transport branch while leaving regular bail open; the separate State appeal over remand has notice returnable on 22 September.
- The default-bail judgment identifies police reports of 19 July and 11 August 2025 and holds them timely and sufficient for that procedural question. Supreme Court orders preserve the distinction between default-bail challenges and regular bail; these rulings do not determine guilt.
- 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 either Crime No.21/2024 or Crime No.11/2026.
- The full CID/SIT chargesheets, annexures, witness statements, forensic accounting reports and trial-court docket are not archived. No new September 2026 chargesheet has been verified in this review; the located 18 September development is reporting about a court statement.
- The signed trial-court pardon order, its conditions and the 18 September deposition are not archived. NTV's report that the approver plea was allowed should not be substituted for the order. Telugu reading aids are machine-only and have not received human language review.
- The reported allegation that Rs.3,200 crore reached Jagan is not a court finding or proof that he has now been added as an accused. A current accused schedule and independent corroborating records are required before changing that status.
- 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.
- The collection includes nine official Supreme Court PDFs, three High Court PDF copies from legal publishers and 13 Indian Kanoon court texts. Official High Court PDFs for the text-only decisions and the complete Vijayawada ACB docket remain missing. eCourts searches did not yield a verified liquor-case filing; candidate order downloads returned an error, which does not establish absence of a filing.
- 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.