The charge sheet against Jagan has been filed without his arrest, as was widely anticipated.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday filed a charge sheet against YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and 12 others in an illegal assets case. The investigating agency submitted the charge sheet to special CBI court at Nampally Criminal Court complex.
The YSR Congress reacted sharply to the charge sheet, alleging that it was done at the behest of the Congress governments at the Centre and the state.
The charge sheet consisted of 68 pages, in which 66 persons were named as witnesses.
An FIR against Jagan was filed by the CBI in connection with a disproportionate assets case on August 17, 2011. A division bench of AP High Court comprising Chief Justice Nissar Ahmad Kakru and Justice Vilas Afzalpurkar had on August 10, 2011 asked the investigating agency to inquire into the alleged assets of Jagan.
The order came in a case filed by the then State handlooms and textile minister P Shankar Rao, three members of main opposition TDP, and a Kadapa-based lawyer in the court seeing a CBI inquiry into the companies that had invested in Jagan’s businesses to allegedly win favours in the form of land allotments and mining leases from the then government led by Jagan’s father YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
The accused have been charged with cheating, criminal conspiracy and criminal breach of trust, the CBI sources said. While Jaganmohan Reddy, an MP and son of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, is the number one accused, Vijay Sai Reddy, who was arrested by the CBI on January 2, is the second accused.
The MP from Kadapa has not yet been arrested.
The other accused include Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official B.P. Acharya, who is already in jail in the Emaar-APIIC case. The others mentioned as accused in the charge sheet include Aurobindo MD Nityananda Reddy, Vijaya Lakshmi Prasad, Aurobindo Director Chandramouli, Trident MD Sarath Chandra Reddy, Hetero MD Srinivasa Reddy, Jagati Publications, Hetero Drugs, Aurobindo Pharma, Trident Technololgy and Janani Infra.
