Bangalore: A mine owner of Bellary and local BJP leader Tapal Ganesh on Monday decided to quit BJP, which he joined in November 2011, protesting against the saffron party’s failure to dump mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and his supporters. Ganesh was brought into the party by state unit BJP leaders when its former minister […]

Hyderabad: It is a sad day, a bad day too, for former Bellary mine King and MLA (ex-minister) Gali Janardhan Reddy on Friday (Dec 30)m when his appeal for bail from Chanchalguda prison to the Hyderabad Nampally special CBI court, was summarily dismissed. Reddy wanted an interim bail to perform memorial rites of his dead […]

Hyderabad: The CBI has prepared a 15 pages chargesheet against a senior IAS officer Y.Srilakshmi (married to a top cap), in the Gali Janardhana Reddy illegal iron ore mining case, for helping him out of turn. Y. Srilakshmi was in jail for 2 days before being bailed out, but she accused Home minister Ms. Indra […]

Hyderabad : A special court Thursday once again dismissed the bail petitions of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy in an illegal mining case. This is the third time, since their arrest on Sep 5, that the special court for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases has rejected their bail […]

Bellary : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday raided the homes of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator and other associates of mining magnate G. Janardhana Reddy, who is behind bars, and seized several documents, an official spokesperson said. The residence of B. Nagendra, BJP legislator from Kudligi in Bellary district, about 300 km […]

Bangalore : Karnataka’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Wednesday it was confident that mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy’s arrest would not affect the party in the Koppal assembly by-poll later this month. “Janardhana Reddy’s arrest and resignation of (Reddy associate and former health minister B.) Sriramulu from the assembly will not have any impact […]

Hyderabad : A special court reserved till Tuesday its order on the bail petition of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy, arrested in an illegal mining case. After hearing the arguments of both sides for the entire day, the special court for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases posted its […]

Bangalore : Former Karnataka minister B Sreeramulu, a close associate of former minister G Janardhana Reddy, on Saturday charged the Central Bureau of Investigation with “acting in a hurry” in arresting the mining baron in an illegal mining case.  “I am confident that Janardhana Reddy will come clean of the charges of illegal mining levelled […]

Hyderabad : Former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and Obulpuram Mining Co (OMC) managing director Srinivasa Reddy, arrested Monday for illegal mining, moved a bail petition before a special court here Tuesday. The counsel of the mining baron and his kin filed the petition in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court, which is likely […]

Bangalore : The CBI, probing illegal mining in Andhra Pradesh, today arrested former Karnataka Minister and BJP leader G Janardhana Reddy from his residence in Bellary, about 350 km from here, for his alleged involvement in illegal mining. This is the first high profile arrest made by the CBI which has taken up probe against […]