The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Court on Thursday remanded two suspended judges D Prabhakar Rao and K Lakshmi Narsimha Rao to judicial custody till July 26. They were arrested by the ACB sleuths in connection with the cash-for-bail case related to the mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy.
Former judge D Prabhakar Rao, who was holding the charge of Secretary (Legal) in the AP State Election Commission, has already been transferred and later placed under suspension.
Meanwhile, the ACB has conducted searches in the premises of K Lakshmi Narasimha Rao, former Chief Judge of Small Causes Court. Hours after the raid, the ACB raided Rao’s residence.
The High Court has placed him under suspension. The searches were conducted based on the confessions of businessman Ravi Suryaprakash Babu, who was arrested by the ACB early this week.
ACB sources claim that Babu claimed to have mediated between a group comprising Janardhan Reddy’s brother G S Reddy, his relative Dasharathram Reddy, Karnataka MLA Suresh Babu and Lakshminarasimha Rao, judicial officer regarding an offer of Rs 10 crore bribe for Reddy’s bail.On Wednesday morning, ACB sleuths belonging to the Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU) went to Prabhakar Rao’s house in West Marredpally and Lakshminarasinha Rao’s house in Hyderguda and continued the searches till late in the evening. mobile phones, laptops and other ‘incriminating’ documents were reportedly seized from their houses.
On Thursday, they were medically examined in the Osmania General Hospital and later produced before the ACB Court at Purani Haveli.