Reiterating that an inquiry should be ordered by a sitting Supreme Court judge to probe into the conspiracy to physically harm Party Chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, the YSR Congress has said some vested interests and a section of media has been actively involved in diverting the issue through malicious propaganda.
‘Our pointed question is if a CBI official can talk to a judge and other persons while the investigations is in process but the issue is being diverted by bringing in freedom of press and the avocation of an individual into the picture,’ party spokesperson Gattu Ramachandra Rao told reporters here today. Mr Rao said journalists speaking to CBI was never been an objection from our side, we have been contending that CBI investigation has been moving on the wrong track and the investigating agency andhra pradesh unit Joint Director V V Lakshminarayana has been very partisan and was not adhering to CBI manual. ‘Mr Lakshminaryana was talking to a select few and information was being passed as inquiry details were being published in a section of media which is now trying to save the Joint Director by bringing the issue of an individual and tagging human relations after whipping up passions of journalists.’
“We firmly believe that the sequence of events, right from the undemocratic arrest, to the bringing of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in an ordinary police van to court, to the black out at Chancalguda jail as part of the conspiracy to harm or eliminate him and the newly elected MLAs sat on a dharna demanding a high level probe into the issue,” said he. The YSR Congress leader also said the CBI manual clearly points out that it cannot speak to any judge or media while the investigation process is in progress and the telephone numbers we released were those who received calls or messages from the Joint Director and we take strong objection to the officer talking to mediapersons. We have given the telephone number of a woman who received most number of calls and who was also in touch with a reporter of telugu daily, Mr Rao said, adding our focus was only on the number and not on the person. We fail to understand why the reporter is enthusiastic to cover-up CBI JD VV Lakshminarayana. ‘Between September and December 2011 there was a barrage of calls between the woman Chandra Bala and the CBI Joint Director.
The cover up bid about the lady’s avocation with Lead India is clearly a deviation and the activity began much later,’ he said. Ms Chandrabala yesterday clarified through a private satellite channel that she and Mr Lakshminarayana were classmates and she was working with the Lead Empowering Youth programme since the last six months and in this contrast both were talking frequently. This was what we have been questioning and serious efforts are being made to divert the main issue and save the Joint Director who did not follow the CBI manual during the investigation and while dealing with the Press,’ he said. He said the party would take up the matter legally and bring the issue to the notice of high offices including Central Vigilance Commission. UNI