Hyderabad, April 07: A city court today permitted disgraced Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju to file a detailed counter against CBI’s allegation that he had violated court orders and met several people at NIMS here where he is presently undergoing treatment.
The investigating agency had last week alleged that about 234 persons met Raju between December 12, 2009 and March 27, 2010 at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences where he is undergoing treatment for Hepatitis-C.
A court in its order on December 5 last year specified that Raju, the prime accused in the multi-crore financial fraud in Satyam Computers, should not be allowed to meet others except his wife or son to attend him in the hospital.
Raju should not be allowed to influence any person with regard to the case the court order had stated.
However, the CBI had alleged that several `rich and mighty’ of society were coming and interacting with Raju in the hospital where he is under judicial custody.
Objecting to the CBI allegations, Raju’s counsels today said only 12 advocates are meeting him in the hospital as he is facing over 40 cases across the world.
Following CBI’s petition on the issue, the superintendent of Chanchalguda central prison had asked each counsel to take permission prior to meeting Raju, the defence counsels said.
After hearing the arguments, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate B V L N Chakravarti instructed the jail superintendent to permit advocates of Raju to meet him at NIMS as per orders dated October 30, 2009. The judge further instructed the Chanchalguda prison superintendent to permit the wife or son of Raju to attend him in the hospital as per orders dated December 5, 2009.
After hearing the arguments the judge called for a detailed counter and posted the matter for further hearing for April 12.
Meanwhile, the court also extended the judicial remand of all the 10 accused for the same date.
Referring to the petition of Mahindra Satyam that sought release of the record rooms at Satyam Technology Centre (STC) and My Home Hub from CBI which were sealed by CBI as part of the investigations, the judge asked the CBI to furnish list of documents to enable Mahindra Satyam to gain access to it. The judge further posted the matter to April 12 on the petition of Enforcement Directorate that sought court’s permission to allow it to record the statements of four Satyam accused.
–Agencies