Gali Bail Scam: MLA Suresh Babu Arrested in Hyderabad
posted on Jul 31, 2012 @ 12:55PM
Karnataka MLA Suresh Babu has been arrested by Anti-corruption Bureau sleuths on Monday night at Hyderabad. On Sunday evening, the special ACB team, which has been tracking his movements, found that he was in Hyderabad to meet an advocate V Surendar Rao in Ashok Nagar over anticipatory bail.
Suresh Babu arrived at the advocate's house at about 6pm. After talking to the advocate for about 30 minutes, he came out and got into his vehicle. The ACB team intercepted the vehicle and took him into custody. The MLA will be produced in court on Tuesday. Suresh Babu is the nephew of BSR Congress chief and independent MLA B Sriramulu. He's an engineering graduate and was the youngest MLA in the Karnataka assembly elected in the 2008 assembly elections from Kampli constituency.
ACB has named eight persons as accused in the scam where suspended CBI judge T Pattabhirama Rao was bribed for granting bail to Gali Janardhana Reddy, prime accused in the Obulapuram Mining Company scam currently being probed by the CBI. The list includes Bellary (Urban) MLA Gali Somasekhara Reddy, suspended CBI judge, T Pattabhirama Rao, his son T Ravi Chandra, suspended judges, D Prabhakar Rao, K Lakshmi Narasimha Rao, retired judge T V Chalapati Rao, history- sheeter P Yadgiri Rao and advocate Aditya. A look-out notice has already been issued against Somashekara Reddy preventing him from leaving the country.