Hyderabad, May 14 -- The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday granted relief to YSR Congress party's parliamentarian P Mithun Reddy in connection with the Andhra Pradesh liquor case, setting aside the April 3 order of the state high court (HC) that had dismissed his anticipatory bail plea, officials privy to the matter said.

Hearing Reddy's petition challenging HC's verdict, Justice J B Pardiwala directed the HC to decide on the bail plea within four weeks and restricted the officials of special investigation team (SIT) probing the alleged liquor case from arresting him till his bail petition is disposed of.

On April 3, the HC dismissed Reddy's bail plea stating that when he filed the petition, he had not been named as an accused by the SIT. ...