Andhra Pradesh minister for Major Industries J Geetha Reddy was today named along with two former ministers and YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in two fresh charge sheets filed in a local court by CBI which is probing alleged quid pro quo investments in companies owned by the jailed Kadapa MP.
The investigating agency has named a total of 10 and 14 accused respectively in the charge sheets filed against Indu Techzone and Lepakshi Knowledge Hub (LKH) in a special CBI court.
While Jagan is named as accused number one, his auditor V Vijay Sai Reddy is also listed as accused along with Shyam Prasad Reddy, promoter of Hyderabad-based diversified group of companies Indu Group and Indu Projects in both the charge sheets.
Also named by CBI as accused are Geetha Reddy and former minister Dharmana Prasada Rao in the charge sheet filed in the LKH aspect of the quid-pro-quo dealings.
Both Geetha Reddy and Dharmana Prasada Rao were last month questioned about the LKH land allotment as it was alleged that there was quid-pro-quo in the land allotment of 8,848 acres to the Lepakshi Knowledge Hub.
Apart from Indu Tech, another former minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy was named as accused in the chargesheet filed against Indu Techzone, which also includes the names of senior IAS officers Ratna Prabha and suspended IAS officer B P Acharya, who has been already named by CBI as accused in the Emaar-APIIC land deal case.
In its charge sheet against LKH, CBI named senior IAS officers Sam Bob and M Samuel besides Acharya.
Besides LKH, its Managing Director Srinivas Balaji, Jagati Publications (owned by Jagan, which runs Sakshi TV and Sakshi newspaper) among others were named as accused.
The agency informed the court that sanction orders were awaited from the government against the IAS officers for their prosecution.
