Court sent the Janardhana Reddy and Srinivas Reddy to CBI till September 19
HYDERABAD: On Tuesday a special CBI court in Hyderabad rejected the bail plea of former Karnataka minister and mining baron Janardhan Reddy and his brother-in-law B Srinivas Reddy in the illegal mining case.
For further questioning in the illegal mining case, Judge B Naga Maruthi Sarma directed the Chanchalguda Jail authorities to hand over Janardhana Reddy and Srinivas Reddy immediately to CBI custody till September 19.
The CBI originally sought custody of the two for 15 days, saying their custodial interrogation was crucial as they had personal knowledge of illegal mining of iron ore in mining area across Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Besides, they could provide information on the conspiracy with government officials allegedly involved in the racket.
The CBI had registered the case against Reddy’s Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) on December 7, 2009 at the request of Andhra Pradesh government in the wake of allegations of illegal mining and irregularities in allotment of mining leases to OMC in Obulapuram and Malpanagudi villages of Anantapur district of the state.
The defence said the question of illegal mining was inter-linked to a boundary dispute of the mine (Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh) which was pending in the Supreme Court.
OMC Managing Director Srinivas Reddy and Janardhan Reddy were arrested by a CBI team on September 5 at Bellary.
(News Editor- Naushin Fatima Khan)
