Supreme Court rejects Jagan's plea to stop CBI probe

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The Supreme Court has rejected Jagan Mohan Reddy's plea to stop a CBI probe in the disproportionate assets case against him.

The Apex Court also asked the Andhra Pradesh High Court to give CBI's report to Jagan if it decides to proceed against him.

Earlier this week the former Congress leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the Andhra Pradesh High Court order for a preliminary probe by CBI into alleged disproportionate assets accumulated by him.

Jagan, son of late Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekar Reddy, after being denied the top post in the state, has floated his own YSR Congress Party on whose symbol he and his mother won the Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendla assembly seats in the recent by-polls.

The petition has challenged the July 12 high court order arguing it was 'illegal' 'erroneous' and "unsustainable' and deserves to be quashed.

Jagan contended the High Court did not have the jurisdiction to order a preliminary CBI probe on a 'politically motivated' petition.

He has sought quashing of the High Court order which directed CBI to submit its report in two weeks.

The High Court had passed the order on the petition filed by Andhra Pradesh Textiles Minister P. Shankar Rao accusing Jagan of amassing huge wealth using his late father's position as chief minister.

Rao had filed the petition before becoming the minister.

The High Court had said it will decide on the issue of a full-fledged inquiry based after the preliminary report from CBI.

The minister accused the Kadapa MP of money laundering by floating fictitious firms and routing the black money through some companies in Mauritius.