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Two more judges sent to jail in cash-for-bail scam
Thursday July 12, 2012 10:09:55 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: A city
court Thursday sent two suspended judges to judicial custody till
July 26 in cash-for-bail scandal involving mining baron and former
Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) produced Lakshminarasimha Rao,
chief judge of small causes court at City Civil Courts, Hyderabad
and D. Prabhakar Rao, third additional district and sessions
judge, Srikakulam, before the ACB court here.
The court sent them to 14-day judicial custody. They were later
shifted to jail.
The ACB had last month arrested suspended Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) judge T. Pattabhirama Rao and retired judge T.
V. Chalapathi Rao in the case.
According to ACB, Lakshminarasimha Rao and Prabhakar Rao
approached Pattabhirama Rao, offering huge bribe on behalf of
Janardhana Reddy's family to grant bail to him in illegal mining
case.
Janardhana Reddy's brother Somasekhara Reddy, who met
Lakshminarasimha Rao and Prabhakar Rao in May at the house of Ravi
Suryaprakash Babu, a realtor, in Hyderabad and offered Rs.20 crore
for the bail.
Pattabhirama Rao rejected the offer but accepted the one later
made by his friend and retired judge Chalapathi Rao, who was
approached by Yadagiri Rao, a man with a criminal record.
The latest arrests were made by ACB after Babu, who was taken into
custody two days ago, revealed the names of the two judges. The
ACB has registered a separate case against the three.
The agency had last month booked eight people including
Somasekhara Reddy and Suresh Babu, both legislators from
Karnataka, and Janardhana Reddy's relative Dasarathrami Reddy. Out
of the eight, the ACB has so far arrested Pattabhirama Rao, his
son Ravichandra and Chalapathi Rao.
The state high court on May 31 suspended Pattabhirama Rao, who had
granted bail to Janardhana Reddy on May 11. The orders were struck
down by the high court last month.
Janardhana Reddy is currently lodged in Bangalore jail as he is
standing trial in another mining case in Karnataka.
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