The former Karnataka Minister, Gali Janardhan Reddy, was granted conditional bail by a special court for CBI cases here on Friday in the case of alleged illegal mining by the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) owned by him.
He will, however, remain in Bangalore jail where he is presently lodged in connection with another case of illegal mining by the Associated Mining Company (AMC), also owned by him.
The court dismissed the bail plea of suspended IAS officer Y. Srilakshmi in the OMC scam and the CBI's request to keep the order of bail for Janardhan Reddy in abeyance for a week to enable it to move the High Court.
Janardhan Reddy was asked to furnish a bond for Rs. 5 lakh with two sureties of like sum, surrender his passport, remain in Bellary, and attend court whenever required. His brother Somasekhar Reddy was present in the court hall from morning till 5 p.m. when the order was pronounced.
The former Karnataka Minister as well as the OMC managing director B.V. Srinivas Reddy were arrested in Bellary on September 5 last year and shifted here. Janardhan Reddy was shifted to Bangalore on March 1 to face trial in the AMC case wherein his wife Lakshmi Aruna and BJP MLA of Kudligi B. Nagendra were also accused.
Keywords: Karnataka mining scam, illegal mining, Bellary mines, Obulapuram mining corp, Janardhan Reddy, CBI probe, bail plea
If he is doing illegal business for so many years what were the govts
of AP and Karnataka are doing? No illegal activity starts overnight,
all these years all were closing their eyes when he was funding them,
suddenly all got up when he stopped funding them.
Also one more interesting thing, he bought these mining leases from
someone when the iron ore market was low, he got lucky to export to
china in boon times and thus made millions. It is part of business.
It is witch hunt on him as he is becoming a political strong weight
which neither congress not bjp can digest.
Bail is grossly undervalued. It should have been in tens of crores.
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