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Illegal Assets Case:
Supreme Court notice to six Andhra ministers
Monday March 12, 2012 07:49:02 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi/Hyderabad: The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to six Andhra Pradesh
ministers and 11 bureaucrats for their alleged role in issuing
orders during the tenure of late chief minister Y.S. Rajashekara
Reddy to favour the business interests of his son, Y.S. Jaganmohan
Reddy.
The notice was issued on a petition seeking a probe against the
ministers and the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers in
the case involving the alleged illegal assets of Jaganmohan Reddy.
Jagan, as the MP from Kadapa is popularly known, is already facing
a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the
alleged illegal assets amassed during his father's tenure.
An apex court bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari issued the
notice on a petition by Nellore-based advocate P. Sudhakar Reddy
seeking a probe into the government orders favouring Jagan.
The notice to the CBI, the ministers and officers were issued with
regard to 26 government orders issued during the tenure of YSR,
who died in a helicopter crash in 2009.
The ministers include P. Sabita Indra Reddy (home), J. Geeta Reddy
(major industries), Dharmana Prasada Rao (panchayati raj), Ponnala
Lakshmaiah (information technology), Kanna Lakshminarayana
(agriculture) and Mopidevi Venkatramna (excise).
The petitioner has challenged a Andhra Pradesh High Court order
rejecting a probe. A special CBI court in Hyderabad had also
rejected the plea.
Sudhakar Reddy contended that the investigation into the
disproportionate assets should not be confined to Jagan but should
also include the role of the ministers and bureaucrats in
facilitating his business dealings.
The CBI court in December last year had rejected Sudhakar Reddy's
petition seeking directions to the CBI to register FIRs against
the six Andhra Pradesh ministers and the 11 IAS officers. The high
court upheld the CBI court's order.
The high court in August last year had ordered CBI probe against
Jagan on a petition filed by a state minister and some leaders of
the opposition TDP.
The investigating agency subsequently booked a case against Jagan
and 72 others.
The YSR Congress party, floated by Jagan exactly a year ago, has
hailed the notice to the ministers. The party has been arguing
that all the concerned ministers were equally responsible for the
orders issued by the government.
The opposition TDP, TRS, CPI and CPI-M have demanded the
resignation of the "tainted" ministers.
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