Two serving judges from AP held
Two serving Andhra Pradesh judges were on Thursday arrested in the cash-for-bail scam for their alleged role in a `10 crore bribe offer to a third judge for granting bail to former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, an accused in the illegal mining case.
D. Prabhakar Rao, district and sessions judge of Srikakulam, and K Lakshminarasimha Rao, chief judge of city small causes court were produced before the Anti-Corruption Bureau court which remanded them to 14-day judicial custody till July 26.
The two judges were arrested from their respective residences in the city.
While Mr Prabhakar Rao was placed under suspension by the Andhra Pradesh high court last week, Mr Lakshminaras-imha Rao was suspended on Wednesday after the ACB sleuths conducted searches at his house. His name had cropped up during interrogation of one of the accused in the case.
He is the seventh person and the third serving judge to be netted by the ACB which took over the probe last month on the direction of the high court after the CBI alleged that there was a “deal” of `10 crores for granting bail to the mining baron.
Earlier, first additional special judge for CBI cases T. Patattabhirama Rao and retired judge T.V. Chalapathi Rao were arrested for their alleged role in the case.
Mr Prabhakar Rao, who worked as secretary (legal) in Andhra state Election Commission had allegedly contacted T. Pattabhirama Rao for facilitating bail to Mr Reddy.
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