Tirupati: On the third day of the ongoing probe into the murder mystery of senior YSRC party leader YS Vivekananda Reddy SIT officials quizzed the brothers and other family members of the deceased leader at the office of the deputy superintendent of police (DSP) at Pulivendula in Kadapa district on Sunday.SIT officials led by additional DG (CID) Amit Garg, Abhishek Mohanty IPS, Kadapa SP Rahul Dev Sharma and others inspected and reconstructed the crime scene at Vivekananda’s residence at Pulivendula on Sunday and also questioned some of the personal staff present there.The SIT team also questioned Vivekananda’s daughter Sunitha, N Rajasekhar Reddy and Vivekananda’s brother-in-law Prakash Reddy, at the residence for a brief while.Meanwhile, brothers and other relatives of Vivekananda, including Kadapa former MP YS Avinash Reddy’s father YS Bhaskar Reddy, YS Manohar Reddy, YS Prathap Reddy and Shankar Reddy were summoned to the DSP’s office at Pulivendula for questioning.According to sources, the relatives and brothers of Vivekananda were questioned together as well as separately for a brief while before they were allowed to leave.The SIT questioning of Vivekananda’s brothers and relatives assumed significance amidst reports of Vivekananda having a dispute with his brother Prathap Reddy over ‘mining matters’ and the former having gone to the extent of staging a protest at Prathap Reddy’s residence a couple of months ago.Meanwhile, the SIT team, which took four persons into custody for questioning, including Yerra Gangi Reddy, a close aide of Viveka, his driver Prasad, personal assistant Krishna Reddy and maid Lakshmi, is reported to have picked up two more persons for questioning.Later in the day, Kadapa SP Rahul Dev Sharma said so far 20 witnesses were examined in the last two days.He said the SIT has used the services of fingerprint bureau and forensic lab. Underlining that about five teams under the SIT and seven teams of the district police wing were investigating the case from different angles based on forensic and technical evidence gathered so far, Sharma added that one team was also probing the rumours of “heart-attack.”Sharma said: “Vivekananda reached home along with Gangi Reddy, Mallela Ravi Kumar and driver Prasad at around 11:30 pm on 14th night. After sending off driver Prasad, Viveka went to sleep at his home. And on 15th morning, Viveka's PA Krishna Reddy reached the residence at 5:30 am but thought Viveka was still asleep. After an hour later when there was still no response from inside, watchmen Ranganna tried to enter the residence through the side door and Krishna Reddy followed. They noticed bloodstains all over bedroom while Vivekananda Reddy was found dead inside the bathroom with bloodstains all over. Viveka's PA Krishna Reddy first informed the incident to all the relatives of the deceased.”“Round about the same time, Y S Avinash Reddy informed local police inspector that Viveka had died of a heart attack. By the time the local inspector rushed in, there were too many people at the scene of crime. The body was shifted from bathroom to bedroom and blood stain in the bedroom was erased. The bedsheet in the bedroom was also changed. They even applied band-aid to almost all the wounds on the deceased's body'', said the SP.“After some people present at the scene claimed that the deceased had vomited blood and sustained a head injury after he accidentally hit the commode and died on the spot, a case was registered,” said Rahul Dev Sharma.“Later the body was shifted to the local government hospital and then clues teams, dog squads were pressed into service and the scene of offence was thoroughly examined. We verified if there was a forceful entry from outside. Meanwhile, the postmortem confirmed that Y S Viveka was murdered going by the deeply inflicted wounds on his body.”“At 3.30 pm on 15th when DIG Kurnool reached the crime scene, Viveka's wife Sowbhagya Reddy, daughter Dr Sunitha and son-in-law N Rajasekhar Reddy were questioned and they handed over a letter to the DIG stating it was written by the deceased. When questioned why they did not present it to the police earlier, they said driver Prasad's name was mentioned in the letter and his life could be in danger which is why Viveka's daughter advised PA Krishna Reddy to secure the letter till she reached there but have eventually handed the letter over to the police now. The handwriting in the letter along with other sample letters collected for a match have been sent to the forensic for tests''. he maintained.

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