The CBI has named Andhra Pradesh Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasad Rao and two more senior officials in its latest charge sheet filed today in connection with the disproportionate assets case against Kadapa Lok Sabha Member Jaganmohan Reddy. The Central Investigating Agency has filed the fourth charge sheet in the assets case against the Y S R Congress Party President Jaganmohan Reddy to the Principle Special Court in the CBI court.
According to CBI officials, the charge sheet has been confined to the irregularities in the Vadrevu and Nizampatnam Ports & Industrial Corridor project in Prakasam and Guntur districts which is popularly known as VANPIC.
The CBI has named a sitting minister, Dharmana Prasada Rao for the first time in connection with the disproportionate assets case against Kadapa Lok Sabha Member Jaganmohan Reddy. The central agency has filed its fourth charge sheet in the case today. Earlier, Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana has also been named in the case but, he had been dropped from the state cabinet in May this year following his arrest.
The CBI has also named two senior IAS officers, Manmohan Singh and Samuel who are presently serving principle secretaries to the state Government in the fresh charge sheet relating to investigations into alleged irregularities in land allotments for the ambitious Vadrevu and Nizampatnam Ports & Industrial Corridor project as part of the probe against the Kadapa MP. VANPIC's promoter Nimmagadda Prasad had allegedly invested 854 crore rupees in the companies belonging to Jaganmohan Reddy for which the then government headed by late YS Rajasekhara Reddy allegedly doled out favours including awarding the project.
Jaganmohan Reddy who is presently on judicial remand and his financial advisor Vijay Sai Reddy continued to be the top two accused in the present charge sheet. Industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad named there after and followed by former minister Mopidevi Ventakaramana Rao who is presently in jail. Some of the Jaganmohan Reddy’s Companies were also named in the charge sheet.
