Hyderabad, May 24 -- In a big relief to Ramakrishna Reddy, YSR Congress Party's Macherla MLA in Andhra Pradesh's Palnadu district, the state high court on Thursday directed the police not to arrest him till June 5, in a case pertaining to destruction of an electronic voting machine inside a polling booth on May 13, people familiar with the matter said.

Reddy, who has gone incognito since the Macherla police filed a case against him, filed a lunch motion petition before a single judge bench of the state high court headed by Justice Jyothirmayi, through his lawyer S Niranjan Reddy, seeking bail.

After hearing the arguments of the petitioner and the prosecution, the bench passed interim orders directing that the police should not take any ...