Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President and India Cements Managing Director N Srinivasan appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) again in connection with the disproportionate assets case of YSR Congress Chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy here today. Sources said the CBI sleuths are questioning him at the Dilkusha Guest House. On June 18, Mr Srinivasan was questioned for over eight hours by the CBI in the same case. The agency’s case was Mr Srinivasan’s company received huge allocation of water from Krishna and Kagna Rivers during the tenure of Later Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy after it reportedly issued two Government Orders (GOs) allotting water to the plants of India Cements in Ranga Reddy and Nalgonda Districts of Andhra Pradesh.
For the favours it received, India Cements allegedly invested Rs 135 crore in Jagati Publications and other firms owned by Mr Jagan, who is currently in jail here. The CBI had already questioned Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah who was the Irrigation Minister in the YSR Cabinet when the water was allocated to India Cements. On May 27 this year, Mr Jagan was arrested by the CBI and lodged in Chanchalguda Jail, where he is under judicial custody till June 25.
So far, the CBI has arrested Jagan, his financial advisor V Vijay Sai Reddy (currently out on bail), Former AP Minister Mopidevi Venkatramana Rao, Industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad and senior bureaucrat K V Brahmananda Reddy. UNI