The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday granted conditional bail to TDP MLA Revanth Reddy in the cash for vote scam. Reddy, TDP's deputy leader in the Telangana Assembly, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on May 31 while he was offering Rs 50 lakh to nominated MLA Elvis Stephenson to make him vote for the TDP-BJP candidate in the Telangana legislative council elections. The ACB, which had laid the trap on a complaint by Stephenson, also arrested Revanth Reddy's aides Sebastian Harry and Uday Simha. The agency said the deal was struck for Rs 5 crore and Revanth Reddy had come to pay Rs 50 lakh as advance. The entire episode was recorded on a spy camera at Stephenson's house. The ACB had questioned the three accused during the custody. The case took a dramatic twist on June 7 when an audio tape of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu's alleged telephonic conversation with Stephenson was aired on some television channels. Telangana's ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) alleged that Naidu is the mastermind in the case. The Andhra government, however, termed the audio tape fake and demanded probe into phone-tapping by the Telangana government.
