CCTV tape shows cash-for-bail deal

Jun 10, 2012 - U. SUDHAKAR REDDY |

Hyderabad

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The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Saturday issued an FIR against suspended CBI special court judge T. Pattabhi Rama Rao and seven others, including two Karnataka MLAs, in the Gali Janardhan Reddy cash-for-bail case. CCTV footage from Daspalla Hotel in Banjara Hills, where the accused had met, has been sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory and the CBI has also collected call details and bank locker footage of the accused and handed them over to the ACB.

The judge and the other accused have been booked for criminal conspiracy, common intention, abetment and public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making a report contrary to sections of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act. CBI additional SP R.M. Khan, who is also the investigating officer of the Obulapuram mining scam case, filed a complaint with the ACB on Friday and an FIR was issued against Mr Pattabhi Rama Rao, Karnataka MLAs Gali Somasekhara Reddy and T.H. Suresh Babu, Mr Pattabhi Rama Rao’s son Ravi Chandra, advocate T. Aditya, rowdy sheeter Yadagiri and others.

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