The special court dealing with the multi-crore Satyam Computers scam today completed the process of examination of all the accused.
After examination of the accused, XXI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) B V L N Chakravarti scheduled a hearing for arguments on framing of charges on August 18.
While nine accused, including two former auditors of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), were examined by the magistrate, the prime accused and former chairman of Satyam Computers, B Ramalinga Raju, submitted his reply to the court through his counsel.
Raju was supplied with a questionnaire through his counsel as he is undergoing treatment for Hepatitis-C at the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) hospital here.
The magistrate first called B Rama Raju, the former MD of Satyam Computers and brother of Ramalinga Raju, and read out 30 charges framed by the CBI.
Rama Raju labelled all the charges "false". The charges ranging from accounting fraud to fabricating of invoices and FDRs in connivance with the other accused, including filing of falsified Income Tax returns.
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Later, the magistrate gave questionnaires to the eight other accused, including the ex-CFO of Satyam, Vadlamani Srinivas, and two former auditors of PWC -- S Gopalakrishnan and his deputy, Talluri Srinivas.
While six of the accused, including former CFO Vadlamani, submitted replies to the questionnaires to the magistrate in 15 to 30 minutes, the two former auditors took about 45 minutes to submit their replies.