They counted ₹24 lakh at a sitting MP’s house. The murder file they attached it to is still only a chargesheet.

The cash they counted on Friday is ₹24 lakh. The murder they say it belongs to is seven years old.

On Friday, 21 August 2026, the Enforcement Directorate searched premises linked to the 15 March 2019 killing of Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy at his house in Pulivendula. The searches ran under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The predicate paper is a Central Bureau of Investigation first-information report and three chargesheets. The money-laundering case itself was filed in 2025. That sequence is the lock. A 2019 death, a 2020 transfer, a 2025 money file, a 2026 search.

The Directorate’s own statement, as put on the public card, is narrow. Seven locations in Hyderabad and Kadapa. Unaccounted cash of ₹24 lakh and two locker keys recovered and seized from the premises of Y.S. Avinash Reddy. Incriminating documents and digital devices taken. The probe, the same filing says, is continuing. Avinash Reddy is the YSRCP Member of Parliament from Kadapa. There was no immediate reaction from him on the card. This desk will not invent one.

Seven is the number this desk will keep. A separate official line on Friday spoke of six premises. This desk will not collapse six into seven, or seven into six. The statement that names the cash and the locker keys names seven locations. That is the lock used here.

What Friday was not is a trial. The chargesheets cited on this file name Avinash Reddy, Y.S. Bhaskar Reddy, D. Shiva Shankar Reddy, T. Gangi Reddy — also written as Erra Gangi Reddy — Y. Sunil Yadav, and others. Naming a man on a chargesheet is an allegation the agency has put on paper. It is not a finding by a court. This desk will keep repeating that until a judgment arrives.

The murder itself is not in dispute as a death. Vivekananda Reddy was found murdered at his Pulivendula house on 15 March 2019. The Andhra Pradesh High Court sent the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation on 11 March 2020. Those two dates are the criminal-case clock. Everything after them is investigation.

The money trail the Directorate is now walking is the chargesheet’s money trail. Shaik Dastagiri, on that record, turned approver. The alleged conspiracy is placed about a month before the murder. The alleged promised sum is ₹40 crore. Dastagiri’s alleged share is ₹5 crore. He said he received ₹1 crore from Sunil Yadav, of which ₹25 lakh stayed with Yadav and ₹75 lakh went to a friend, Syed Munna. Those rupee lines are approver-and-chargesheet lines. They are not a recovered-from-the-MP line. The only cash this Friday’s search statement attaches to Avinash Reddy’s premises is ₹24 lakh, plus two locker keys.

A later seizure on the same Central Bureau of Investigation record, from Munna’s side, is ₹46.70 lakh in cash plus unaccounted jewellery. That figure is labelled as it stands. This desk will not add it to the ₹24 lakh, will not fold it into the ₹40 crore promise, and will not print a second cash figure from another recap as if it were the same bag. ₹46.70 lakh is one cited seizure. ₹24 lakh is Friday’s seizure. They stay apart.

Pulivendula is in YSR Kadapa district. Hyderabad is where some of the seven locations sit. This desk will not invent the street list. It will not invent which of the seven houses yielded the documents. It will not invent a locker-bank name for the two keys. The statement says premises of Y.S. Avinash Reddy for the cash and the keys. That is as far as the lock goes.

These are searches. They are not a conviction. A sitting Member of Parliament can have his premises searched and still be only an accused on a chargesheet. The other named men on that paper are in the same legal place: charged, not judged. Until a court writes, the honest picture is seven locations, ₹24 lakh, two locker keys, a 2025 Prevention of Money Laundering Act case, a 15 March 2019 murder, an 11 March 2020 transfer to the Central Bureau of Investigation, and a set of rupee allegations that begin at ₹40 crore and must be read as allegations.

This desk will not print six premises as if they were the Directorate’s seven. It will not print a first-information-report number that is not on the card. It will not print a conviction that has not been pronounced. Friday is a money search on a murder file. The file is still open.