The special court for trying Satyam scam cases on Wednesday passed orders to club three chargesheets filed by the CBI against accused B. Ramalinga Raju and others.
CBI special counsel, Mr K. Surender, said that the court has decided to try three chargesheets jointly as there is enough evidence to show that all the offences form part of the same transaction.
After Raju confessed to the scam, the CBI had filed three chargesheets — the main chargesheet mentioning the modus operandi, a supplementary chargesheet giving details of the fudging of accounts and adding insider trading allegations, and a specific chargesheet on the violation of income-tax rules.
During the earlier hearing, the CBI had argued for a separate hearing for the charges on the violation of income tax rules.
The CBI had argued that chargesheets pertaining to main crime and other violations cannot be clubbed together. Mr Raju’s counsel, however, pushed for clubbing of chargesheets.
Uncertainty, however, persists on the fourth chargesheet to be filed by the CBI agency on alleged fund diversion. “There is no decision on the chargesheet regarding FEMA violation,” an official said.