Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau on Monday filed a chargesheet against suspended judge T Pattabhirama Rao and seven others, including two KarnatakaMLAs, in the cash-for-bail case involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. The chargesheet was filed in the special ACB court in Hydrabad charging Rao and others entered into a conspiracy to facilitate bail to Janardhan Reddy. When asked if Janardhan Reddy himself figures in the chargesheet, the ACB official refused to comment.The case was exposed by CBI in May after Pattabhirama Rao, additional special judge for CBI court, granted bail to Janardhan Reddy while refusing the same relief to suspended IAS officer Y Srilakshmi in the Obulapuram Mining Company case.
News On AIR | August 14, 2012 10:02 AM
Cash-for-bail: Chargesheet against suspended Judge Pattabhirama, others