Mine king Reddy re-appears… quizzed

Bengaluru: After remaining elusive for three days, former Karnataka minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy Saturday appeared before the police in a ponzi case and denied the allegations as a "political conspiracy". Reddy, who the police said had been absconding, came in a car to the Central Crime Branch office, along with his advocates, after releasing a video message from an unknown location, saying he would appear before it.

"I have not committed anything wrong. The police do not have a single document to prove that I am wrong. They are misleading the media," he claimed in a video message telecast by TV channels. Reddy was a minister in Karnataka's erstwhile BJP government.