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| Jagan Mohan Reddy to stay in jail; |
| Jagan Mohan Reddy to stay in jail; court rejects his bail plea
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| INDIA
, 4-July-2012
6:3:52 AM |
| Jagan Mohan Reddy will be in jail for at least two weeks more. A CBI court here has extended his judicial remand till July 18, a few hours after the Andhra Pradesh High Court had rejected his plea for bail.
Mr Reddy has been at the Chanchalguda Jail near Hyderabad for 37 days now in a disproportionate assets case.
The 40-year-old MP's lawyers had moved the High Court for bail on June 21; the court today accepted the argument of the CBI that investigation in the case is at a critical juncture and therefore bail should not be granted right now. The judge, however, did say that there was no evidence presented by the CBI to show that Mr Reddy had tampered with evidence.
The CBI has contended that it will file four additional chargesheets in the case and that it fears that Jagan Mohan Reddy, an influential person, can threaten witnesses and tamper with evidence.
Arguing for Mr Reddy, his lawyer Ram Jethmalani said his client was a prominent public figure heading a political party that had 16 MLAs and two MPs, and that he would would cooperate with the CBI in its investigation.
On Tuesday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed its fourth chargesheet against YSR Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in the same case. It is a supplementary to the first chargesheet where the investigating agency has added a new Section 9 under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The YSR Congress is disappointed. A party contingent of top leaders headed by Jagan Reddy's mother Vijayalakshmi are in Delhi today to meet the Prime Minister and seek his intervention. They allege that the CBI is not investigating the case impartially.
Mr Reddy's party has singled out CBI Joint Director Lakshmi Narayana, alleging that he is biased. The Andhra Pradesh High Court had on Monday asked the officer to explain within a week why he made several phone calls to the media.
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