[1]The CBI on Saturday filed a charge sheet in a special court in the illegal mining case involving Obulapuram Mining Company owned by former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy.
The charge sheet was filed against Janardhana Reddy, his brother-in-law B. V. Srinivas Reddy (also the managing director of the mining company) and against former director of Mines and Geology (Andhra Pradesh) V. D. Rajagopal and OMC, CBI joint director (Hyderabad Zone) V. V. Lakshmi Narayana said.
The Reddys, who were arrested on September 5 from Bellary in Karnataka are presently in judicial custody and lodged in the Chanchalguda Central Prison here along with Rajagopal, who was arrested subsequently.
They have been charged under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 409 (Criminal breach of trust by public servant), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and Section 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) of IPC and relevant sections of Prevention of Corruption Act.
OMC is accused of changing mining lease boundary markings between Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, and indulging in illegal mining in the Bellary Reserve Forest area, spread between Bellary district of Karnataka and Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh.
The CBI had registered the case against the company on December 7, 2009 at the request of Andhra Pradesh government in the wake of allegations of illegal mining and irregularities in allotment of mining leases to OMC in Obulapuram and Malpanagudi villages of Anantapur district of the state.
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