A CBI special court on Friday permitted the investigation agency to interrogate former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy and five other accused in the case of multi-crore iron ore exports scam from Belekeri port on the state’s west coast.
Granting its plea for five-day custody of the accused till 12 March, Justice B M Angadi directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to keep them in city’s central jail but conduct the interrogation at its office on their alleged role in the illegal export of around 5.1 million tonnes of iron ore from the state-run port, about 450 km from Bangalore from January 2009 to May 2010.
Reddy, who is lodged in the Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad since September 2011 in connection with another mining scam case in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, was brought to Bangalore earlier in the day by the CBI’s state branch on a transit warrant to question the involvement of his another firm - Associated Mining Company (AMC) - in the export scam.
Granting its plea for five-day custody of the accused till 12 March, Justice B M Angadi directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to keep them in city’s central jail but conduct the interrogation at its office on their alleged role in the illegal export of around 5.1 million tonnes of iron ore from the state-run port, about 450 km from Bangalore from January 2009 to May 2010.
Reddy, who is lodged in the Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad since September 2011 in connection with another mining scam case in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, was brought to Bangalore earlier in the day by the CBI’s state branch on a transit warrant to question the involvement of his another firm - Associated Mining Company (AMC) - in the export scam.