The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday attached assets worth Rs 884 crore of the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) of former Karnataka minister and jailed mining baron G Janardhana Reddy under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). ...
11:34 AM, Dec 06, 2012
Hyderabad: Former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy is likely to be produced in court on Friday as his judicial custody ends. Reddy has been in jail in connection with an illegal mining case since September 2011. Seven people have been accused of trying to bribe a judge to grant him bail. Associated Mining Corporation (AMC) and Deccan Mining Syndicate (DMC) owned by Reddy and his wife Aruna Lakshmi have been...
09:32 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Hyderabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is likely to seek a Prisoner Transit (PT) warrant to examine jailed mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy in the cash-for-bail case. He is currently lodged in a Karnataka jail in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case. The ACB on Monday filed a 40-page chargesheet in the cash-for-bail deal giving detailed account of the role played by each of the accused. Sources told Express that ACB...
12:10 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Hyderabad: Former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, currently in jail in illegal mining case, wanted to come out on bail at "any cost", revealed his relative Dasaradharami Reddy, who was arrested on Sunday in cash-for-bail scam. In his statement before the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), he said the mining baron was ready to offer any sum of money to bribe the judge for bail. Dasaradharami Reddy told the ACB officials that...
01:18 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Hyderabad: In a stunning claim, an Andhra Pradesh lower court judge arrested in the cash-for-bail scam, has said that a whopping Rs 100 crore was offered by relatives of former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy to secure bail for him. In a confessional statement to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), K Lakshmi Narasimha Rao, Chief Judge of Small Causes Court, said Dasaradharami Reddy, a relative of Gali Janardhana...
10:28 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh anti-Corruption bureau has arrested suspended Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge Justice Pattabhi Raman Rao in the cash-for-bail case. Rao allegedly accepted a bribe of Rs 6 crore to grant bail to former BJP minister Gali Janardhana Reddy in an illegal mining case. The arrest comes three days after Rao's residence was raided in connection with the case. This is the third arrest in the case....
09:30 AM, Jun 19, 2012
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) claims that a deal of Rs 6 crore was struck between former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and suspended CBI judge T Pattabhirama Rao for the former's bail. Rs 2.8 crore have been recovered from the locker of the suspended CBI judge's son, sources said on Friday. The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday night suspended the First Additional Special Judge for CBI...
07:07 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Bangalore: Mining barons Reddy brothers are generally believed to have bankrolled Bharatiya Janata Party to come to power in Karnataka. Now their loyalist has been caught on video claiming the Reddys had given around Rs 250 crore to BJP's first chief minister BS Yeddyurappa for the purpose. The video footage aired by a Kannada TV channel on Tuesday shows Reddy loyalist and former BJP minister B Sriramulu making the claim....
01:25 AM, Mar 14, 2012
Bangalore/Hyderabad: Gali Janardhana Reddy, the struggling businessman-turned-mining baron who once dictated terms to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka, comes to Bangalore early on Friday for the first time in six months, as an accused in illegal mining. Reddy, a former BJP minister in Karnataka, is being brought by road from Chanchalaguda Central Jail in Hyderabad, about 600 km away, by the Central Bureau of Investigation team to present him...
02:26 AM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: A special CBI court in Hyderabad is likely to hear the Obulapuram illegal mining case against Gali Janardhana Reddy on Wednesday. The former Karnataka Minister and three others will be produced in court as their custody ends on Wednesday. The CBI earlier filed the chargesheet in the Bellary illegal mining case. Filing the chargesheet in the CBI special court, the apex investigation agency has charged Gali Janardhan Reddy,...
06:19 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Hyderabad: A special court in Hyderabad on Friday rejected the petition of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy for interim bail to attend his mother's death anniversary ceremony at Bellary. The mining baron, a key accused in the illegal mining case, wanted the special court dealing with the CBI cases to send him to Bellary with police escort so that he can attend the rituals and related charity programmes Dec...
10:29 PM, Dec 30, 2011
Hyderabad: Former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy chargesheeted in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) "scam" again moved a local court seeking bail on Tuesday, the fourth time since his arrest on September 5. Janardhana Reddy, who owns the OMC, in his fresh bail plea filed in the Special Court for CBI cases in Hyderabad contended that investigation against him has been completed and a chargesheet filed in...
07:49 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) Director D Rajshekhar has been arrested in the Bellary illegal mining case on Friday morning. He is the brother-in-law of VD Rajagopal who is already in CBI custody in the same case. The CBI arrested VD Rajagopal, the former vice-chairman and managing director (in-charge) of Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation on November 13 Rajagopal is the third person to be arrested in the OMC...
11:53 AM, Dec 02, 2011
Hyderabad: Y Srilakshmi, the IAS officer arrested for allegedly giving undue favours to mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, will be produced in court on Thursday. Senior IAS officer Srilakshmi on Wednesday sent to judicial custody till December 12 after her arrest by the CBI in the illegal mining scam. While Srilakshmi is the first IAS officer to have been arrested in the scam, several other senior...
10:03 AM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: The bail applications of Gali Janardhana Reddy and BV Srinivasa Reddy have been rejected on Thursday. Earlier, a special court on November 14 extended the judicial custody of mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law and Managing Director of Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) BV Srinivasa Reddy, till November 28, in the illegal mining case. The court also granted permission to the CBI to...
05:40 PM, Nov 17, 2011
New Delhi: A special CBI court is scheduled to hear the bail petition of former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law BV Srinivasa Reddy. Both were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on September 5 in an illegal mining case. CBI on September 22 had opposed the bail pleas probing "illegal" mining and irregularities in allotment of mining leases to Obulapuram Mining Company...
08:29 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Hyderabad: CBI on Thursday opposed the bail pleas of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy, arrested in connection with alleged illegal mining activities, at a special court here contending that the duo carried out "illegal" mining by creating forged documents and through conspiracy. The agency, probing "illegal" mining and irregularities in allotment of mining leases to Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), had arrested Janardhana...
06:59 PM, Sep 22, 2011
