In waht is perhaps a severe indictment of the CBI”s conduct of its probe into YSR Congress Party President Jaganmohan Reddy”s disproportionate assets case, the Supreme Court today ordered issuances of notices to six ministers and eight IAS officials from Andhra Pradesh on a petition filed by an advocate Mr Sudhakar Reddy.
The Bench, while ordering the notices, sought to know on what basis ”some files were declared which led to this entire case. Interestingly, the same petition to register FIRs against six AP Minister and eight IAS officers was rejected by the special court for CBI cases on December 26 last year by Judge Nagamaruti Sarma.
Subsequently, the advocate moved the Supreme court seeking directive to the CBI probe, which has now ordered issuance of notices to the concerned ministers and IAS officers who he stated werer working under Mr Jagan”s father, Dr YS Rajashekhara Reddy when he was the Chief Minister of Andhra pradesh before he died in a choppter crash in September 2009 and therefore privy to government orders which benefited some of the firms belonging to Jagan.
The Supreme Court order was particularly significant as it underscored the dubious probe process adopted by the CBI in the assets case When the initital petition by Shankar Rao stated that there were certain decisions taken by the YSR government that were questionable, the CBI chose to completely ignore verifying whether certain Government Orders (GOs) issued were malafide or not.
Without probing the important aspect (GOs), the Investigating agency in an unseemly hurry straighway targeted private individuals and business houses in the state.
The imbroglio involving the Minister and IAS Officers has arisen, entirely owing to the apathy and inaction by the current ruling government by failing to respond to the High Court notice on Mr Jagan assets case. This precipitated the current turn of events.
—-Agencies