The hearing on the discharge petitions in former chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s illegal assets case has started again from the beginning on Thursday in CBI court. Arguments have started on the discharge petition filed by Aurobindo and will continue on Friday too.
The new judge T. Raghuram asked the lawyers about the summary of CBI 11 and ED 9 chargesheets, discharge petitions and the manner of investigation so far. The court has decided to hear the arguments on the charge sheet-wise discharge petitions from Friday. 130 discharge petitions filed by Jagan and other accused in the charge sheets of CBI and ED have been pending for the last 10 years.
The petitions were filed by include Jaganmohan Reddy, Vijaya Sai Reddy, Ayodhya Ramireddy, Mopidevi Venkataramana, Dharmana Prasada Rao, Sabita Indra Reddy, J. Geetha Reddy, Nimmagadda Prasad, Nimmagadda Prakash, P. Sarath Chandra Reddy, P. Pratap Reddy, Puneeth Dalmia, Jitendra Veervani, Nithyananda Reddy and PV Ramprasad Reddy seeking to remove them from these cases.
IAS officials, Srilakshmi, M. Samuel, BP Acharya, G. Venkatram Reddy, Manmohan Singh, V. D. Rajagopal, S. N. Mohanty and others discharge petitions are pending in the court. These discharge petitions filed in the CBI court since 2013 are still pending.
After hearing some of the lengthy arguments, the judges are transferred and start all over again. Seven judges were transferred in eleven years. The recently transferred judge CH.Ramesh Babu heard the arguments at length from May 4, 2022 and the trial almost came to an end.
Ramesh Babu was also transferred at a time when the verdict was going to be announced after hearing the arguments for two years. Lawyers believe that the investigation is likely to be conducted almost daily from Friday.
Earlier time limit for disposal of pending discharge petitions in CBI court has been set, but to no avail. Despite the completion of arguments on more than 130 pending discharge petitions no verdict has been issued. The judges of the CBI court are being transferred when the judgment was to be pronounced.