ACB FIR on cash for bail case: Gali men did not give promised money to judge !

By Shivakumar G Malagi 

Bellary, June 12: Gali Janardhan Reddy's men have not paid full amount of bribe as promised by them to Hyderabad special CBI court judge Pattabhi Rama Rao, to secure bail for imprisoned mine baron in Obulapuram Mining Company's case; top sources told Deccan Chronicle quoting First Information Report registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Andhra Pradesh.

Although, there was no reference about exact amount of money finalized after the "bail-deal" struck between Gali's men and judge Pattabhi; ACB has reportedly stated in the FIR that several hundred crore deal was okayed on 9th May, two days before the granting of bail to Gali at a four-star hotel in Banjara Hills in Hyderabad between Bellary City MLA and Janardhan's elder brother Gali Somashekhar Reddy and retired judge Chalapathi Rao in mediation of rowdy-sheeter Yadagiri Rao and a certain amount of money was paid in advance. This money was kept at five bank lockers opened by Pattabhi's son Ravi Chandra at a nationalised bank in Ashok nagar in Hyderabad and also at the residence of Chalapathi's brother Balaji Rao. ACB has claimed that Rs 2.75 crore  has been recovered so far out of the total unknown amount of money given as bribe.

Besides, the CBI had collected details of phone conversation recording of 175 seconds held between judge Pattabhi and Chalapathi Rao who subsequently called Yadagiri for 392 seconds before granting bail at 9:45 am on 11th May. 

Interestingly, FIR noted that Gali's men have not paid remaining amount of money as promised by them to judge Pattabhi when CBI asserted in the court hall that it would go for an appeal in the Andhra Pradesh High Court against this bail granting to Janardhan Reddy. Then, Gali's men reportedly told Yadagiri that remaining amount of bribe will be paid only after the disposal of CBI petition in High Court. When he did not get his promised amount of bribe from Gali's men; judge Pattabhi has reportedly delayed for three days to give bail order copy to CBI, this in turn, has raised doubts for CBI over the granting of bail and started investigating the case with the permission of HC chief justice Madan B Lokur.