AP Handlooms & Textiles minister P Shankar Rao wrote a letter to the High Court to order for a probe by the CBI in to the properties of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. The high court, treating Shankar Rao's letter containing corruption charges against Jagan as a petition, has taken up hearing of the same.

Earlier, P Shankar Rao was quoted, during his Bobbili tour, by a section of press as saying that he has filed the case against Jagan Mohan Reddy at the behest of Sonia Gandhi. Quashing the reports as false, Shankar Rao said, "I am denying this with a lot of pain in my heart. I am a man with values and discipline. I filed the case against Jagan Mohan Reddy after Congress leaders including Sonia Gandhi gave a call for eradication of corruption at an AICC session. Taking this as inspiration, I filed a case against Jagan Mohan Reddy."

During the hearing today, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's counsel urged the court to take cognizance of the ulterior motive behind a minister seeking CBI probe through the court, instead of the government making the move. For this, the government pleader replied that, since the case filed in the court is related to corruption by Jagan Mohan Reddy, there is nothing wrong in a state minister seeking CBI probe through the court.