Dr P C Rayulu, who has also served as chairman of task force under Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries, has been charge-sheeted for allegedly forging two letters purportedly signed by Lok Sabha MPs Shruti Chaudhary and K P Dhanapalan recommending his name for a Rajya Sabha seat.
In its charge sheet filed in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Parkash, the CBI said a telephone enquiry by the PMO after it received the letters on February 9, 2011, revealed the MPs had not sent or signed them.
The charge sheet said Tirupati-based Rayulu has been doing warehousing and transportation business since 1979 in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa and Rajasthan under the name of PCR Warehousing Ltd. He was also doing business of storing and transporting foodgrains, fertilizers and cement from his 25 warehouses in these states.
The CBI said Rayulu started social work like distributing blankets and other items to the poor and went on to join Congress Party in 2007 at Tirupati. He was made the chairman of the Task Force (South Zone II) in the Union Ministry of Food Processing in August 2008 for two years and his term was extended for six months up to February 2011, it said. More