The CBI has received a setback on Thursday when the special court rejected the supplementary charge-sheet it filed against YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in the illegal assets case.
The court, which has rejected the supplementary charge-sheet for the first charge-sheet filed on July 3, said that it was full of mistakes. Faulting the agency for mentioning only the names of companies and not their representatives, the court directed the CBI to file another charge-sheet correcting the mistakes.
Mentioning that summons should be issued to individuals based on the charge-sheet, the court asked the CBI to mention the names of the representatives of the companies mentioned in the charge-sheet. It also pointed out that if names were not mentioned, there would be problems in issuing summons. It may be mentioned here that even earlier, the court had rejected the charge-sheets of CBI in Jagan and Emaar cases.
It may be mentioned here that the CBI filed the supplementary charge-sheet on July 3 in the court. The agency informed the court that it was a supplementary charge-sheet to the first charge-sheet. CBI has been filing separate charge-sheets for each of the companies that had invested in Jagan’s companies.
In the present supplementary charge-sheet, CBI has mentioned about the investments made by the Hetero company. Through the present charge-sheet, CBI has filed one more case under Section 9 of the PC Act against Jagan. The agency has stated in the charge-sheet that Jagan had influenced government officials, using the influence of his father late chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
The CBI alleged that all the investments into Jagan’s companies were bribes received for favors done by Jagan’s father. It stated that as mentioned in the charge-sheets, Rs 35 crores have come into Jagan’s companies as bribes. CBI also produced some documentary evidence and mentioned the names of two witnesses in the charge-sheet. (NSS)