Bangalore: The CBI probing the alleged multi-crore iron ore scam on Monday filed its chargesheet against former minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and six other accused in the case.
The chargesheet running into 15,000 pages was filed before the CBI Special Court Judge Shreedshananda.
Apart from Reddy, S Muthaiah, then Deputy Conservator of Bellary Forest; SP Raju, the then Deputy Director of Hospet Mines and Geology Department; Reddy's close aide Mehfuz Ali Khan, Manoj Kumar Shukla, the then Conservator of Bellary Forests; Nagaraj and K Mahesh have been named in the chargesheet.
The accused have been chargesheeted under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act. The allegation is that the accused were parties to a criminal conspiracy entered among themselves during 2009-2010 to commit various offences including excavation of iron ore from mines and forest areas in Bellary district and surrounding areas....
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed registration of FIR into the illegal export of iron ore from Karnataka. It also asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to submit a status report into the illegal exports within six weeks. A Supreme Court-appointed committee on illegal mining in Karnataka its final report in February had come down heavily on mining companies and recommended the cancellation of their licences. Most...
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