Breakthrough in CBI JD Call List Case: CID Makes First Arrest
posted on Jul 26, 2012 @ 10:42AM
In a major breakthrough, the Andhra Pradesh CID has made its first arrest in CBI Joint Director VV Laxminarayana's call list case. The CID sleuths arrested K Venka Reddy alias K V Reddy, a top executive of a Maharashtra-based company for his alleged role in the scandal. Venka Reddy is the vice president of Ind Barath Energies (Maharashtra) Ltd.
According to CID Additional Director General of Police S V Ramana Murthy, Venka Reddy has confessed to the crime and admitted to having committed the offence at the instance of other accused persons. Reddy is being remanded in judicial custody and efforts are on to arrest the other accused who are absconding. The CID had last month taken over the probe pertaining to "unauthorised tracking" of the phone call details of CBI Joint Director (Hyderabad Zone) V V Laxminarayana.
Hyderabad and Cyberabad police initially registered separate cases on complaints by the CBI JD and social worker Vasireddy Chandrabala that their call details were being illegally obtained to "malign" them. Prior to the complaints, YSR Congress Party leaders had made public a list of phone calls, reportedly made and received by Laxminarayana, accusing him of "selectively leaking" the information pertaining to the ongoing probe in the disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy, to select media persons and Chandrabala.