Kadapa MP and YSR Congress president, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was issued notice by the CBI to appear before it on Friday for questioning in connection with alleged illegal mining and irregularities in allotment of leases to a firm owned by former Karnataka Tourism Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. The sources said that Jagan will be questioned by CBI officials under section 161 CrPC.

Accordingly, Jagan appeared before the central probe agency at Koti in Hyderabad at around 10.30 am. The CBI is probing alleged nexus between Mr. Jagan and Mr. Janardhana Reddy whose company OMC has been accused of violating mining norms in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. Jagan Mohan Reddy will be questioned only in connection with the mining case and not with regard to his alleged disproportionate assets matter, CBI officials had on Thursday said.

The clearance for mining leases to OMC was given during the tenure of Rajasekhara Reddy as Chief Minister. The CBI recently questioned the then cabinet colleagues of late Rajasekhara Reddy including State Home Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy (who was then Mining Minister) in connection with the mining scam as it found that mining leases for OMC were cleared in an unusual haste, sources had earlier said.