K. Venkat Reddy, the first person to be arrested in the CBI Joint Director V.V. Lakshminarayana call data leakage case, has been identified as the person who filed a complaint with the Maharashtra police stating that he got threatening calls from the mobile numbers of the CBI officer. The CID has filed a petition seeking custody of Mr K. V. Reddy for further questioning. Venkat Reddy, vice-president of Ind Barath Energies (Maharashtra) Ltd, was produced before the CID court on Thursday and sent to judicial remand till August 6.
Mr Reddy filed the complaint on the instructions of his boss, Mr Raghu Rama Krishna Raju, chairman of Ind Barath Energies. Mr Krishna Raju was annoyed with news items published in various newspapers reporting his appearance before the CBI for questioning twice. He filed a petition in the court alleging that Mr Lakshminarayana was leaking information to select media about him and tarnishing his image. He enclosed the call data of Mr Lakshminarayana, from September 1, 2011 to December 21, 2011.
The CID stated that Mr Krishna Raju had obtain-ed the call data of three numbers belonging to Mr Lakshminarayana thro-ugh his friend Mr Ramana Rao who had contacts with telecom officials. Mr Ramana Rao, director of MIC Electronics, Kushaiguda, contacted Mr K. Hanumantha Rao, DDG, TERM, DoT, Nagpur, requesting him to get the call data. Mr Hanumantha Rao, who had earlier worked in Vijayawada and Hyderabad, sent the details of the numbers to Mr M. Ramakrishna, director, TERM, DoT, Vijayawada. All this was illegal as call data details can be obtained only through service providers on the request of law enforcement agencies. The CID has named four persons and Mr Venkat Reddy is accused number four. The two others are Dr M. V. Ramana Rao and Mr Hanumantha Rao.