SIT grills retired IAS officer and Jagan’s OSD in liquor scam-OxBig News Network

SIT police taking Bharathi Cements director Balaji Govindappa to the ACB court in Vijayawada on Wednesday.
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The Special Investigation Team (SIT) police on Wednesday questioned retired IAS officer and former Secretary in the Chief Minister’s Office K. Dhanunjaya Reddy and former Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Krishna Mohan Reddy in the alleged liquor scam.

With the Supreme Court directing the police not to arrest the two accused till May 16, Mr. Dhanunjaya Reddy and Mr. Krishna Mohan Reddy appeared before the investigating officers.

The SIT had named Mr. Dhanunjaya Reddy and Mr. Krishna Mohan Reddy as Accused No.31 and 32 respectively in the multi-crore scam that had taken place in the YSRCP government’s term.

In a related development, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Special Court, Vijayawada, sent Bharati Cements director Balaji Govindappa, who was arrested in the liquor scam, to judicial remand. The police shifted him to the Vijayawada jail. The police had arrested Mr. Govindappa in Mysuru on Tuesday, and shifted him to Vijayawada on prisoner transit warrant.

Meanwhile, the SIT police continued their raids on the suspects at various locations in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Raids were conducted on the companies for which P. Rohit Reddy, a suspect in the scam, was the director. SIT carried our raids at Shaikpet, Gudi Malkapur, Rajendranagar, Yakutpura and other locations. Earlier, the police conducted searches on the houses of the accused in Vijayawada.

It was alleged that the YSRCP leaders had floated some shell companies and diverted the money earned through illegal means in the liquor scam.