Hyderabad: The two Congress Cabinet ministers, accused in Jagan Reddy disproportionate assets case, submitted their resignations to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday night. Dharmana Prasad Rao and Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy met Kiran Kumar on Sunday night, who briefed them about his meet with Sonia Gandhi and other leaders regarding the opposition's demand for their resignations.
Both the ministers, who had served in the cabinet of Jaganmohan Reddy's father YS Rajasekhara Reddy (2004-09), have been accused of showing undue favours to companies which invested in Jagan Mohan Reddy's business.
The Congress government had been defending the ministers, saying they only implemented the decisions taken by the cabinet and were not the beneficiaries of the controversial orders like allotment of lands, grant of licenses and leases to companies.
The demand for dropping the tainted ministers gathered momentum after two central ministers, Ashwini Kumar and Pawan Kumar Bansal, resigned recently on the direction of Congress leadership in view of certain allegations against them....
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11:59 PM, May 19, 2013
Hyderabad: In an embarrassment for the Congress in Andhra Pradesh, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court has chargesheeted the state's Home Minister, Sabitha Reddy, in connection with the Jagan Reddy disproportionate assets case. Sabitha has been accused by the FBI of misusing her position. She is the third Cabinet minister accused. The Congress is under fire over the case. Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu said, "The party needs...
07:23 AM, May 16, 2013
YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy suffered another disappointment with the SC denying him bail in an illegal assets case. ...
10:29 AM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to give its order on the bail plea of YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday. This is the sixth attempt made by Jagan Mohan in a year to get legal relief. He has been in a Hyderabad jail since May 2012 in connection with a disproportionate assets case. On Monday, the apex court had reserved its order on whether Jagan Mohan...
10:28 AM, May 09, 2013
Hyderabad: A special CBI court on Monday extended till May 13 the judicial remand of YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and others accused in connection with alleged quid-pro-quo deals in the assets case. Jagan and the others accused, including ex-minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao, industrialist Nimmagadda Prasada and senior bureaucrat KV Brahmananda Reddy (all accused in Vanpic aspect of the Jagan assets case), who are currently lodged in...
05:21 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Central Bureau of India (CBI) seeking its response on the bail plea of YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy in a disproportionate assets case. A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam asked the agency to file its response and posted the case for hearing on May 6. Jagan Mohan has moved the apex court challenging the Andhra Pradesh High...
02:43 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Dalmia Cements, named as accused in the CBI chargesheet in disproportionate assets case against Jagan Mohan Reddy, has allegedly invested Rs 55 crore through hawala route in the cement companies promoted by the YSR Congress chief. CBI sources claimed they have got money trail of Rs 55 crore which were allegedly invested by Dalmia Cements in Jagan's company through hawala routes in return for favours received from the...
07:22 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy was on Monday named by CBI as one of the accused in its fifth chargesheet in connection with the disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy. The agency filed its fifth chargesheet before a Special CBI Court naming Jagan and naming 12 other individuals, and firms. Sabita is the third minister from the state to figure in five chargsheets...
08:38 PM, Apr 08, 2013
The CBI, probing the alleged disproportionate assets case involving YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy, on Monday said it could file a supplementary chargesheet in the case on Tuesday. The central agency made this submission before a special CBI court here while seeking extension of judicial remand of Jagan and other accused. ...
10:45 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Rajya Sabha and Congress MP KVP Ramachandra Rao will be questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday in connection with the Jagan Reddy disproportionate assets case. Ramachandra Rao was the chief adviser to Jagan's father, the late CM of AP YSR Reddy. ...
09:20 AM, Mar 23, 2013
BSP Chief Mayawati today slammed the government over CBI searches at DMK leader MK Stalin's residence, claiming that she too has been a victim of "misuse" of CBI by both BJP and Congress to further their political interests. ...
02:20 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The Lokayukta police was in for a surprise when it raided a peon employed with the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike on Thursday. The police team recovered properties worth Rs 2 crore from the peon. The police found that the peon owned six houses and five plots of land, one of them spreading across two acres, in prime areas in and around Bangalore. ...
06:12 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The special CBI court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of Kadapa MP and YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy till March 20 in the disproportionate assets case against him. Jagan, former minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao, industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad, senior bureaucrat KV Brahmananda Reddy (all accused in Vanpic aspect of the Jagan assets case) and other accused, lodged in Chanchalguda Central Prison, were produced before the court through video-conference....
07:43 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Madhya Pradesh Chief Conservator of Forest and 1987 batch Indian Forest Service officer, Basant Kumar Singh, has been suspended by the state government after Lokayukta raids unearthed more than Rs 70 crore in disproportionate assets. ...
12:36 PM, Feb 08, 2013
Lokayukta police on Tuesday raided the residence of an employee of a state power company and found details of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. ...
11:38 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Lokayukta police on Tuesday raided the residence of an employee of a state power company and found details of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. ...
10:47 PM, Feb 05, 2013
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has dismissed the bail plea of YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy in the alleged disproportionate assets case. Reddy had earlier asked the CBI about the details of the progress in the investigation as CBI had filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court claiming that a comprehensive chargesheet would be filed after completing the probe expeditiously. ...
11:23 AM, Jan 24, 2013
It is a crucial day for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. Defence witnesses in the disproportionate assets case against her are expected to depose on Monday. ...
10:34 AM, Jan 21, 2013
There is more trouble for YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy in the disproportionate assets case. The Enforcement Directorate has attached properties worth Rs 143 crore as part of the probe. ...
11:41 AM, Jan 08, 2013
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday adjourned till January 4 the hearing on a regular bail plea of jailed YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in the alleged disproportionate assets case. Justice B Seshasayana Reddy adjourned the hearing on the bail plea moved by the Kadapa MP to January 4 to enable the CBI to file a status report on the progress of investigation into the case. ...
09:54 PM, Dec 26, 2012
