Gali planned similar cash for bail deal for Karnataka CBI case too

By Shivakumar G Malagi

Bellary, June 2: As more details of the case emerge in jailed former minister Gali Janardhan Reddy’s “mining bribe for bail” scam; highly placed sources revealed that bribe involved was not Rs 5 or 15 crore but a massive 60 crore package deal exclusively for Obulapuram mining case in Andhra Pradesh.

Of the Rs 60 crore deal allegedly involving rowdy sheeters, AP state minister, sitting judges, ex-judges, lawyers and a former journalist, top sources involved in investigating mining scam told Deccan Chronicle that Rs 15 crore has been paid in advance from Gali associates and now, CBI sleuths hunting for recovering this money.

What’s more shocking here is that Gali’s men were already on task preparing a similar plan to get bail for mining czar 

imprisoned in Parappana Agrahara central prison in Bengaluru in connection with his owned Associated Mining Company’s case in Karnataka too; top sources told.

When the Hyderabad’s CBI special court judge Pattabhi Ramarao granted bail to Gali Janardhan Reddy on 12^th May, top sources said, buoyed with confidence to execute similar plan successfully in Karnataka case too, two Gali associate MLAs with a family advocate have started working out another plan on the same parameters applied in Andhra Pradesh to ensure bail for Janardhan Reddy after the Bengaluru branch of Central Bureau of Investigation filing charge sheet in AMC case. CBI filed charge sheet on 30th May.

Meantime, there was a wide-spread strong rumour in mining baron’s home-town Bellary that Janardhan Reddy will be out of prison on bail in both OMC and AMC cases by mid-June and it’s apparently expressed often in open public by his loyalists including his confidante Independent MLA B Sriramulu saying that Janardhan Reddy will soon get bail and join his padayatra before it reaches Bengaluru in mid July.

Top sources claim that indeed, it’s the advice of tainted judge Pattabhi to hire the services of county’s top most counsel Ram Jethmalani for Janardhan Reddy, since it would create an impression that Janardhan Reddy got bail only because of legal luminary’s advocacy. Following this advice, top sources said, Mr Jethmalani was brought to CBI special court in Bengaluru on 23^rd May making him to cut short his Europe tour to argue on behalf of Janardhan Reddy in AMC. However, CBI special court rejected to grant bail to Gali extending his judicial custody till 5^th June.

Currently,the two MLAs from Bellary allegedly involved in the scam are reportedly fearing of imminent arrest as the CBI, Hyderabad branch now claims to have audio recordings and even CCTV footage to prove the involvement of everyone from politicians to petty rowdy sheeters in the case. The CBI is about to file a memo in the Nampally CBI court in Hyderbad listing out all the participants in the case.