A CBI statement identified the arrested as S Muthaiah, then Deputy Conservator of Forest, Bellary District, the seventh accused in the case, and S P Raju, the then Deputy Director Mines and Geology department, Hospet, Bellary district, and the 22nd accused.
Muthaiah, Conservator of Forests (research), Dharwad, now, is currently under suspension, while Raju has retired.
The duo were produced before the 47th Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge and Special Judge for the CBI cases who remanded them to police custody for 10 days.
On April 27, the CBI court had extended till May 10 the judicial custody of Janardhana Reddy and his personal assistant Mehfuz Ali Khan, the two main accused in the case.
The CBI had filed a criminal case on the directions of the Supreme Court of India dated October 10, 2011 against Janardhana Reddy and others under various IPC sections, Prevention of Corruption Act, Indian Forest Act and Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation (MMDR) Act 1957. PTI BH RS VS