Hyderabad, Dec. 12 -- Senior YSR Congress party leader and former MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy and his brother Pinnelli Venkatarami Reddy surrendered before a local court in Macherla in Andhra Pradesh's Palnadu district on Thursday in connection with a double murder case.

Both brothers are named as accused - A6 and A7 respectively - in the sensational double murder case involving TDP leaders Javishetty Venkateswarlu and Javishetty Koteswara Rao of Gundlapadu village in Veldurthi mandal, Palnadu district in May this year.

Soon after their surrender, a junior additional civil judge court at Macherla remanded the brothers to 14-day judicial remand. They were shifted to Nellore district jail in the evening, people familiar with the matter...