Yadagiri, who acted as middleman in paying Rs 10 lakh for Sarveshwar Reddy’s bail, is absconding. He is the one who actually paid Pattabhi Rama Rao when Gali Janardhan Reddy was in jail. So he has to reveal the link, said ACB officials. Sarveshwar Reddy is also likely to be questioned. ACB sleuths are also verifying statements of the accused, alleging that AP Election Commission legal secretary D. Prabhakar Rao had tried to strike a deal between Gali’s relatives and Pattabhi Rama Rao before Chalapathi Rao had come into the picture.
“We will crosscheck their statements. Depending on how the probe progresses we will decide on recording the statement of Prabha-kar Rao,” said ACB. The accused had stated that Prabhakar Rao had tried to broker a deal for Gali’s bail for `10 crore and that he had even threatened them after the deal was struck through the other middlemen, Chala-pathi Rao and Yadagiri.