Suspended judge booked in cash-for-bail scam

June 09, 2012 04:43 pm | Updated July 12, 2016 03:22 am IST - HYDERABAD

T. Pattabhirama Rao, First Additional Special Judge for CBI, was suspended after the evidence was found that he allegedly received money to grant bail to Gali Janardhan Reddy, in the illegal mining case.

T. Pattabhirama Rao, First Additional Special Judge for CBI, was suspended after the evidence was found that he allegedly received money to grant bail to Gali Janardhan Reddy, in the illegal mining case.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday registered a case against T. Pattabhirama Rao, First Additional Special Judge for CBI cases, and six others in the cash-for-bail scam in Andhra Pradesh.

The Judge was ordered to be suspended by the then Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court Madan B. Lokur after the CBI unearthed evidence that he allegedly received money to grant bail to former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, in the case relating to illegal mining by the Obulapuram Mining Company.

It was alleged that Mr. Pattibhirama Rao was paid Rs. 2.87 crore by Mr. Janardhan Reddy’s aides. The followers and relatives of the mining baron had initially bargained with the Judge for payment of Rs. 5 crore for granting bail to four persons but a deal was finally struck for payment of Rs. 10 crore. As per the deal, Mr. Janardhan Reddy, his brother-in-law B. V. Srinivas Reddy, suspended IAS officer Y. Srilakshmi and former Director of Mines V. D. Rajagopal were to be granted bail.

The CBI recovered a portion of the bribe amount from lockers of a nationalised bank in Hyderabad. After preliminary investigations it handed over the case to the ACB on Friday.

The anti-corruption agency also registered cases against two BJP MLAs from Karnataka, Gali Somasekhara Reddy, brother of the former Minister, and Suresh Babu, former judicial officer of Andhra Pradesh T. V. Chalapathi Rao, Mr. Pattibharama Rao's son Ravichandra, Yadagiri, a rowdy-sheeter and Dasharath Ram Reddy. They have been charged under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code.

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