Emaar Villas Case: CBI Unearths a Convicted Cheat

During questioning of the Emaar villa owners, the investigating agency CBI brought to fore a convicted cheat, who also happens to be owner of a villa in Emaar Boulder Hills project. He is none other than the managing director of 'Surya' Telugu newspaper, Nukarapu Surya Prakash Rao.

The CBI on Wednesday produced Nukarapu Surya Prakash Rao in the CBI special court in connection with a cheating case. The investigating agency urged the court to send him to jail as he was already convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the case. The AP High Court too upheld the sentence imposed on him. This case and his subsequent conviction came to the fore when the CBI summoned him and questioned him about his villa in the Emaar case.

The CBI Special Court Judge Naga Maruti Sarma, however bailed him out for a day against a personal bond of Rs. 25000/. Surya Prakash Rao produced some papers claiming that the Supreme Court after hearing his plea that raised certain health concerns gave him two weeks time to show proof for the same. He said he was seeking some time to surrender in the court on health grounds. The judge posted the case to Thursday for decidng the matter.

The politician turned media baron Surya Prakash Rao was convicted for entering into a conspiracy with the officials of Somajiguda branch of Vijaya Bank in 1987 and got a loan of Rs 2.67 crore sanctioned to two fictitious firms. These two firms promised to help the bank mobilize deposits in return for housing loans to several persons sponsored by them. The housing loans sanctioned by the bank were swallowed up by the fictitious firms. The court found certain bank officials and Rao guilty and convicted them for two years of imprisonment. Though Suryaprakasa Rao challenged it in the high court, it did not give him any relief and upheld the trial court's order. The trial court later issued an arrest warrant against Suryaprakasa Rao.
 
Interestingly, he was earlier also questioned by the CBI in the disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress Party President Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. However, the arrest was made in the Vijaya Bank cheating case. Suryaprakash Rao was once considered a close confidante of former Chief Minister late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy. There were allegations that he had encroached upon a prime land at Nadargul on the city outskirts. Subsequently, he switched political loyalty to Telugu Desam Party just before the 2009 elections and contested from Anakapalli Lok Sabha seat on TDP ticket but was defeated.

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.