HYDERABAD, Aug 13: Names of Andhra Pradesh Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao and two senior IAS Officers have figured in the 177-pages fourth chargesheet submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Principal Special Court for CBI cases in the YSR Congress party Chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s disproportionate assets case.
The investigation agency, which has been probing Jagan’s illegal assets case, submitted 284 supporting documents in the court today.
In the chargesheet, as many as 14 persons were charged as the accused in the case.
The CBI had already filed three chargesheets in the DA case.
This was the fourth chargesheet in the case against Mr Jagan.
Dharmana Prasada Rao, who is minister for roads and buildings, has been named as the fifth accused in the case while others who have been named as accused in the chargesheet are Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy, his aide Vijaysai Reddy, industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad and former Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkatramana.
The CBI has been filing chargesheets one after the other against companies that had invested in Mr Jagan’s businesses as quid pro quo for benefits that they got from the government.
Aurobindo, Hetero and Ramky groups of companies besides Jagati Publications, owned by Mr Jagan, were charge-sheeted earlier.
The CBI, in its three chargesheets filed against Kadapa MP Mr Reddy and others had alleged that he and his father and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy hatched a conspiracy to defraud the government, and the state government granted some favours to certain firms, which made investments in Jagan’s businesses as a quid pro quo.
The 39-year-old MP was arrested on May 27 after being questioned for three days. Mr Reddy is currently lodged at the Chanchalguda Jail here. (UNI)
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