JOIN USThe CBI in its 300-page charge sheet in the EMAAR land scam case on Wednesday named 12 persons and firms as accused.
The charge sheet, submitted in the designated court here in Nampally, included the names of three IAS officers: B P Acharya, in CBI custody and currently undergoing treatment at NIMS, LV Subrahmanyam, Executive Officer (EO) of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), and K Visweswara Rao (retired).
However, the CBI, which has kept the name of former APIIC chief L V Subramanyam under wraps, still has to take permission from the Centre to question the TTD EO.
The Dubai-based real estate developer, EMAAR - MGF, has been accused by the CBI of allegedly committing financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 138 crore through stated sale of plots at a grossly undervalued price in the 358.36-acre joint venture EMAAR Hills Township Project (EHTPL) in Hyderabad.
The CBI has recorded the statements of 286 witnesses and collected 1,834 supplementary documents leading to almost 50,000 pages, which were submitted to the court in six boxes by CBI Joint Director V V Lakshminarayana.
The charge sheet holds B P Acharya as accused number one, followed by Mohammad Ali of EMAAR as accused number two, Director EMAAR, EMAAR-MGF, Ranga Rao of Stylish Homes, Koneru Rajendra Prasad, Srikanth Joshi of Emaar, Boulder Hills, L V Subrahmanyam, EO, TTD, K Visveswar Rao, Koneru Madhu s/o Koneru Rajendra Prasad, T Ranga Rao.
However, the names of EHTPL chief executive Vijayaraghavan and Y S Jaganmohan Reddy’s close aide Sunil Reddy did not find place in the charge sheet. “I am not ruling out a supplementary charge sheet later,” Lakshminarayan said.