Illegal assets case: CBI grills Jagan for a third day

Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) grilled YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for the third day today while his two aides have also been summoned for questioning in an illegal assets case. CBI officials took custody of Jagan, as the young leader is popularly known, from the Chanchalguda Central Jail here and shifted him to the agency’s office at Koti. [caption id=“attachment_332679” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“PTI”]  [/caption] Congress legislator D Chandrasekhar Reddy and Sakshi TV director S Ramakrishna Reddy also reached the CBI office in response to the notices served by the CBI. Chandrasekhar Reddy has reportedly worked as director in one of the companies owned by Jagan. He had recently called on Jagan’s mother YS Vijayamma to express his solidarity. The CBI may question him and Ramakrishna Reddy in the presence of Jagan about the investments received by Janani Infrastructure and Jagati Publications. The CBI has so far questioned the Kadapa MP about the investments received from industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad in return for the land and other concessions given for his port project Vanpic. He is believed to have been grilled about the investments that flowed from some companies based abroad into his Sandur Power and other firms. Jagan, who was arrested by the CBI on 27 May, allegedly conspired with his father and then chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy to dole out favours to companies which made investments into his businesses on quid pro quo basis. The CBI on Monday issued a notice to Information Technology Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah, directing him to appear for questioning on 7 June. Lakshmaiah, as the minister for major industries in Rajasekhara Reddy’s cabinet, had issued an order allocating water from Krishna river for a cement company. The central agency on 24 May had arrested Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkataramna, who as the then minister for infrastructure and investments, had issued orders allotting huge land and granting other concessions to Vanpic. Venkataramna along with Jagan, Nimmagadda Prasad and bureaucrat KV Brahmananda Reddy are currently lodged in Chanchalguda jail. IANS