<p>Amid tight security, former Karnataka Tourism Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy was today produced before a special CBI court here which remanded him to CBI custody till March 12 in connection with an illegal mining case.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Reddy and 20 others are facing charges for their alleged involvement in illegal mining, over which the CBI had filed an FIR against them in October last.<br /><br />Reddy was brought here in the early hours of today by CBI personnel from Hyderabad and later escorted into the court.<br /><br />Associated Mining Corporation (AMC) and Deccan Mining Syndicate (DMC) owned by Reddy and his wife Aruna Lakshmi have been facing probe over charges of illegal mining.<br /><br />Additional Civil and Sessions Court judge B M Angadi remanded Reddy to custody after CBI moved an application in this regard.<br /><br />Former minister and Congress leader V Muniyappa and few other officials are the other accused in the case.<br /><br />The city civil court complex, where the CBI court is located, witnessed trouble following an altercation between a section of advocates and media persons over filming of the events that followed production of Reddy before the court.<br /><br />A camera person was injured when some advocates attacked few regional channel camera crew following which media persons staged a protest at the court premises.<br />Expressing displeasure over the attack on media persons, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda has asked Law Minister S Suresh Kumar to look into the issue.</p>
<p>Amid tight security, former Karnataka Tourism Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy was today produced before a special CBI court here which remanded him to CBI custody till March 12 in connection with an illegal mining case.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Reddy and 20 others are facing charges for their alleged involvement in illegal mining, over which the CBI had filed an FIR against them in October last.<br /><br />Reddy was brought here in the early hours of today by CBI personnel from Hyderabad and later escorted into the court.<br /><br />Associated Mining Corporation (AMC) and Deccan Mining Syndicate (DMC) owned by Reddy and his wife Aruna Lakshmi have been facing probe over charges of illegal mining.<br /><br />Additional Civil and Sessions Court judge B M Angadi remanded Reddy to custody after CBI moved an application in this regard.<br /><br />Former minister and Congress leader V Muniyappa and few other officials are the other accused in the case.<br /><br />The city civil court complex, where the CBI court is located, witnessed trouble following an altercation between a section of advocates and media persons over filming of the events that followed production of Reddy before the court.<br /><br />A camera person was injured when some advocates attacked few regional channel camera crew following which media persons staged a protest at the court premises.<br />Expressing displeasure over the attack on media persons, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda has asked Law Minister S Suresh Kumar to look into the issue.</p>
