Was CBI Special Director Hyderabad Visit Just Routine?

Just after the CBI Hyderabad JD Laxminarayana's call list episode, CBI special director Vineet K Gupta visted Hyderabad. Though it was said that the special director's visit was merely a routine excercise, speculations are rife that it is in someway connected to the exposure of JD's call list by the YSR Congress Party.

On the outset, the special director is said to have discussed with the joint director V V Lakshminarayana and other officers on the progress of various cases, particularly the cases registered against illegal mining, Emaar-APIIC land scam, Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s disproportionate assets and Shaik Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Reportedly the special director while expressing satisfaction over the progress in the three cases, expressed displeasure over lack of progress in tracing out former naxalite Nayeemuddin in connection with the Sohrabuddin encounter case. Gupta is learnt to have directed Laxminarayana to seek complete cooperation of the state police machinery in tracing Nayeemuddin.

Curiously, a section of political observers are of the opinion that special director Gupta's visit immediately after the call list exposure wasn't just routine as publicised, but it was intended by the Delhi bosses to take stock of the situation that arose out of the exposure.