AP govt: YS Jagan provided Z-category security cover till now

On Tuesday, the state government of Andhra Pradesh has put forward before the Hyderabad High Court that it has not withdrawn the Z-category security cover to Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, the leader of opposition in the state cabinet and the Chief of YSRCP.

The action of the authorities in withdrawing Z-category security cover provided to YS Jagan Mohan since the last three years, is being dealt by Justice Nooty Ramamohana Rao.

D V Seetharama Murthy, a former advocate-general, who represented YS Jagan, said to the court that his client had been provided with Z-category security cover with two chief security officers and additional 12 personal security officers in view of continuous danger and it had been reduced without any sort of prior intimation.

The Andhra Pradesh advocate-general P Venugopal responded to a query from the judge and said that the government had neither withdrawn nor reduced the security cover to the petitioner YS Jagan. The court was adjourned for two weeks.

It is represented that there was a threat to the petitioner’s life and the decision to reduce the security cover was taken based on the recommendation of the state-level security review committee.