Janardhan Reddy was ready to pay Rs100cr for bail, says judge

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Chief judge of city small causes court K. Lakshmi Narasimha Rao, who has been arrested in the cash-for-bail Gali Janardhan Reddy scam, has revealed that Gali’s kin were ready to pay Rs100 crore to obtain bail for the mining baron, who is currently implicated in the Obulapuram mining scam.

Lakshmi Narasimha Rao confessed that he was approached by an auditor who was acquainted with one Dasaratha Rami Reddy, a relative of Gali Janardhan Reddy. He was told that they were looking for a channel to influence the CBI judge to grant bail to Gali Janardhan Reddy.

Lakshmi Narasimha told the ACB sleuths that he was shocked when the auditor informed him that Gali’s family was ready to pay Rs100 crore for the deal.

Accordingly, Lakshmi Narasimha Rao approached the then-CBI judge Nagamaruti Sharma, who flatly refused to be a party to any such deal.

Later, Ravi Surya Prakash Babu approached Lakshmi Narasimha Rao to discuss the deal and informed him about his meeting with Gali Janardhan Reddy’s brother Ramulu in Bellary.

Ravi Surya Prakash Babu, was requested to meet Ramulu’s nephew, Kampili MLA T.H. Suresh Babu, to help him to secure bail for Gali Janardhan Reddy. It was clear that Nagamaruthi Sharma would not help them.

Also by then he was transferred and Pattabhi Rama Rao was appointed in his stead as principal judge, CBI cases. That was when Lakshmi Narasimha Rao approached his friend Prabhakar Rao (who was also a batchmate and close buddy of Pattabhi Rama Rao) to influence the judge.

Prabhakar Rao was introduced to Ravi Surya Prakash Babu and he readily agreed to talk to Pattabhi
Rama Rao.

However, Pattabhi Rama Rao refused to entertain any such deal and asked them to remain discreet about the whole issue.

On being asked by the ACB about various cheques found at his residence, Lakshmi Narasimha Rao informed them that those cheques were part of the amount he had lent to a builder earlier.