Mining czar Janardhana Reddy, kin get 14-day judicial custody Agencies Tags : Janardhana Reddy arrest, Janardhana

Reddy judicial custody, illegal mining scam, Bellary Reddy brothers Posted: Mon Sep 05 2011, 08:42 hrs Bellary: The Bellary Reddy brothers are seen in picture. From left: Janardhan (L), G Karunakara and Somasekhar Reddy. (PTI) Blogs

The CBI on Monday arrested former Karnataka Minister and mining baron G Janardhan Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy in connection with illegal mining after raids at their premises allegedly led to a seizure of 30 kg of gold and Rs 4.5 crore in cash. Booked under corruption charges, Reddy, a powerful BJP leader in Karnataka, and Srinivas Reddy, Managing Director of Obalapuram Mining Company owned by the Reddy brothers, were taken to Hyderabad where a special CBI court remanded the two in judicial custody. The two men were later jailed in Chanchalguda prison. Cheating and criminal trespass under IPC sections and irregularities in Andhra Pradesh under the mining act are among the charges against
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the two arrested men who were also booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The crackdown on the two men began in the wee hours of the morning in Bellary when a 15-member CBI team from Hyderabad conducted searches at the house of Janardhana Reddy. Official sources claimed that the CBI sleuths seized Rs three crore in cash and over 30 kgs of gold. A sum of Rs 1.5 crore was also seized from the residence of Srinivasa Reddy, they claimed. "Janardhana Reddy and Srinivas Reddy have been arrested under Prevention of Corruption Act and we are taking them to Hyderabad," CBI DIG P V Lakshminarayana, who is heading the team, told reporters in Bellary. The arrests came in connection with the cases filed by CBI against the Bellary Reddy brothers in Andhra Pradesh, the sources said, adding both were expected to be produced before a special CBI court in Hyderabad later in the day. ... contd.

Comments View all Comments (38) | Where are the moral preaching leaders of the BJP now? By: Saurabh | 05-Sep-2011Reply | Forward you mean to say that "seizure of over 30
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kg of gold and more than Rs 4.5 crore in cash" was also planted by the congress...come on!!! so well said that "MOST CORRUPTED AND OPPORTUNIST PARTY IN INDIA IS BJP" Mining mafia By: Y. Jagannatham | 05-Sep-2011Reply | ForwardOne wonders HOW long the prisons can keep the Reddy brothers inside. Once, Yeddyurappa wept publicly on account of the Bellary mining mafia. Country's iron ore is exported to China and the mafia in Karnataka made hundreds of crores of money. Vishakhapatnam steel plant starves of iron ore as it is not having any captive mines. But iron ore mined legally and illegally being exported to China at the cost of Mother India. LAW should take its course. Criminals should be punished. Meraa Bhaarath Mahaaan!!! Please let all the skeletons come out By: jaya | 05-Sep-2011Reply | Forward The Hazare episode has started mudslinging. Guess who was in power the most... Congress/ Nehru gang. Sonia cut & ran and is managing her attack with stooges. BJP better watch it...time for all the skeletons to come out. CBI Arreests By: A. Dias | 05-Sep-2011Reply | Forward It is proved that India is the largest democracy of corrupt criminals. Why these people should not be hanged????? The people who are looting the people and country are definitely criminals and they do not deserve to live. They must DIE!!!! Hang them in public. Test of Democracy by: Vaish words | 05-Sep-2011Reply | Forward There have been arrests made before but now we need to see some convictions. This is a test between the deep private sector and political nexus versus our democratic and justice systems.
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