Hyderabad: A special CBI court in Hyderabad on Monday dismissed the bail plea of mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, an accused in the illegal mining case involving his Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC). This was the sixth bail petition of Gali Janardhan Reddy since his arrest in the OMC scam in September last year, which was again dismissed on Monday.
Janardhan Reddy, a sitting MLC from Karnataka, presently under judicial remand in Chanchalguda Central Prison in Hyderabad, had last week moved the CBI court seeking to grant him bail to enable him to participate in the Assembly elections in that state, scheduled to be conducted next year. However, the CBI, which strongly opposed his bail application, had contended that the investigations into the illegal mining case were still continuing and apprehended that if Janardhan Reddy was enlarged on bail, there was possibility of tampering of evidences and witnesses.
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Bellary: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) winner from the Bellary Lok Sabha constituency, J Shantha, was on Saturday officially declared the winner from the seat after a recount of votes. The Karnataka High Court had set aside the election of the MP in June this year after a petition was filed against her in the court saying that she used fake caste certificates and that there were counting irregularities. Shantha is...
05:40 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Hyderabad: Mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, the prime accused in the illegal mining case involving Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), on Tuesday alleged he had been "booked illegally". Reddy, lodged in a jail in Bangalore in connection with another illegal mining case, was presented before a special CBI court in Hyderabad through video-conference following the expiry of his judicial custody in the case. After seeking permission from...
11:21 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Hyderabad: A local court on Thursday granted bail to two accused in the cash-for-bail case involving former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy. Suspended CBI court judge Talluri Pattabhirama Rao's son T Ravi Chandra and lawyer T Aditya, facing charges of conspiring with others to secure bail for Reddy in Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case, were given bail by Anti-Corruption court in Hyderabad. The court asked them to...
12:48 AM, Sep 07, 2012
Hyderabad: Suspended judge K Lakshminarasimha Rao and others, who had mediated with the associates of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy to secure his bail, is learnt to have initially demanded Rs 500 crore from the mining baron. But the deal did not shape up as the then CBI special court judge B Nagamaruthi Sarma refused to grant bail. This was revealed by a chartered accountant-cum-realtor P Krishna Prasad in...
12:08 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Hyderabad: BSR Congress founder B Sreeramulu on Tuesday appeared before the Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau on Hyderabad in connection with the ongoing probe in the cash-for-bail scandal involving jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Sreeramulu, a Bellary (Rural) MLA and close associate of Janardhan Reddy, was served notice by the ACB which sought to record his statement in connection with the bail scandal case. In its remand report submitted...
05:54 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Sunday continued questioning of Bellary MLA Gali Somashekhar Reddy, an accused in the cash-for-bail scandal involving his brother and jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, for the third day in a row. Somashekhar Reddy, who is accused of "playing a key role in bribing" suspended judge T Pattabhirama Rao in granting bail to mining baron Janardhan Reddy, was earlier summoned by the...
02:50 PM, Aug 05, 2012
Hyderabad: Alleging that ACB deputy superintendent of police Srikrishnudu had manhandled him in the name of investigation into the Gali Janardhan Reddys bail scam, suspended judge K Lakshmi Narasimha Rao has written to the chief justices of the Supreme Court and the AP High Court, and chairman of the AP State Human Rights Commission (APSHRC) among others seeking justice. He alleged that minister for law and courts Erasu Pratap Reddy...
10:56 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Hyderabad: A junior lawyer Aditya, allegedly facing charges of colluding with other accused in cash-for-bail case, on Thursday surrendered before a Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court in Hyderabad. Aditya, one of the accused in cash-for-bail case involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, surrendered in the court and was later sent to judicial remand till August 2. He was working with E Umamaheshwar Rao, the defence lawyer of mining baron Gali...
03:15 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Hyderabad: Two more judges - Justice D Prabhakar and Justice K Laxminarsimha Rao - have been suspended by the Andhra Pradesh High Court for their alleged involvement in granting bail to mining scam accused and former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Justice D Prabhakar and Justice K Laxminarsimha Rao and have also been arrested by the Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau. Earlier Justice Pattabhi Raman Rao had been...
11:41 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Bangalore: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Monday summoned the wife of mining baron and former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy to appear before it on July 10 in an illegal mining case filed against them. CBI special court judge B M Angadi ordered the issue of summons to Aruna Lakshmi, the second accused in the illegal mining case filed against Reddy, already in judicial custody since his...
04:44 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday carried out raids at the residence of suspended Judge Justice Pattabhi Raman Rao in connection with the cash-for-bail scam. Rao reportedly took Rs 6 crore from former BJP minister Gali Janardhan Reddy to grant him bail in the illegal mining scam involving the Obulapuram Mining Company. The judge was suspended after the CBI produced evidence of him taking the bribe from...
01:43 PM, Jun 16, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court on Monday set aside the election of BJP's Lok Sabha MP from Bellary, J Shanta. She is the sister of former Karnataka minister Sriramulu. The court also ordered recounting of votes within four weeks. A petition was filed in the court against Shanta, alleging that she used fake caste certificates and that there were counting irregularities. Shanta is also said to be a close confidante...
05:09 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Bangalore: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Tuesday extended till June 18 the judicial custody of former Minister G Janardhana Reddy and four others arrested in connection with an illegal mining case that allegedly caused a loss of Rs 480 crore to the state exchequer. CBI court judge B M Angadi extended the judicial custody of Reddy, owner of Associated Mining Corporation, his personal assistant Mehfuz Ali Khan...
05:04 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Hyderabad: A CBI team led by joint director VV Lakshminarayana knocked on the door of first additional CBI judge T Pattabhirama Rao's Banjara Hills residence last month, and asked for the keys to his bank lockers. Taken aback, the judge allegedly sputtered, "Keys? What keys? What are you talking about?" The judge has been accused of accepting Rs 2 crore from aides of Gali Janardhan Reddy for giving bail to...
12:55 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Hyderabad: A trial court judge in Andhra Pradesh has been implicated in a bribery scandal involving mining baron Janardhan Reddy, who reportedly struck a deal with the former for bail. Judge Pattabhi Rama Rao now faces arrest after the Andhra Pradesh High Court gave sanction to the CBI to prosecute him. Sources say that the CBI got information that a deal worth Rs 6 crore had been struck between Reddy...
08:36 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday granted permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute First Additional Special Judge for CBI cases T Pattabhirama Rao. He was suspended on Thursday by the Andhra Pradesh Chief Justice for alleged irregularities. The CBI is expected to register a case soon. The CBI has claimed that a deal of Rs 6 crore was struck between former Karnataka minister Gali...
08:41 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Bangalore: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Wednesday dismissed the bail pleas of former Karnataka minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy, his personal assistant Mehfuz Ali Khjan and three others arrested in connection with an illegal mining case involving Associated Mining Corporation. Judge B M Angadi dismissed the petitions on the ground that the accused had committed an economic offence of "high magnitude affecting the very economy...
04:48 PM, May 30, 2012
Hyderabad: Hyderabad court on Friday granted conditional bail to former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy in the OMC illegal mining case. Associated Mining Corporation (AMC) and Deccan Mining Syndicate (DMC) owned by Reddy and his wife Aruna Lakshmi have been facing probe over charges of illegal mining. Additional Civil and Sessions Court judge BM Angadi had remanded Reddy to custody after CBI moved an application in this regard. Former minister...
05:34 PM, May 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Hyderabad court on Friday granted conditional bail to former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy in the OMC illegal mining case. Associated Mining Corporation (AMC) and Deccan Mining Syndicate (DMC) owned by Reddy and his wife Aruna Lakshmi have been facing probe over charges of illegal mining. Additional Civil and Sessions Court judge BM Angadi had remanded Reddy to custody after CBI moved an application in this regard. Former minister...
05:34 PM, May 11, 2012
