The CBI has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court seeking to set up a special court to investigate Chief MInister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s Illegal Assets Case. The CBI investigation agency has revealed many things related to Jagan’s illegal assets cases and explained reasons that trail has been dragged for 12 years.
The CBI has stated that six judges were transferred in the trial court, before judgments were given on quash and discharge petitions filed in the case, 39 quash petitions and 95 discharge petitions have been filed in this case so far, and judges are being transferred before judgments are given on these.
The CBI said that even the latest judge was transferred after at least two years, and all the accused in this case are powerful. The CBI is of the opinion that one case after another is being filed for one reason or another and arguments are being made by the best lawyers in the country and the CBI court should be filled if the investigation is to be speedy.
The CBI investigation agency appealed to the Supreme Court to hand over the day-to-day investigation of the case to a principal court. It said that there are 911 witnesses, all of them are above 50 years of age, and in view of their difficulties, it has appealed not to transfer the trial to another state.
Meanwhile, the CBI has filed an affidavit in the SLP hearing filed by MP Raghurama Krishnaraju to transfer Jagan’s illegal assets case from Telangana to another state. During the last hearing . Justice Sanjiv Khanna’s bench expressed impatience with the behavior of the CBI.
On the orders of the Supreme Court, the investigating agency placed before the bench the proceedings in the trial court in Jagan’s illegal assets case. The last chargesheet in Jagan’s embezzlement case was filed in 2013. After that, 95 accused and companies filed discharge petitions and 39 accused filed quash petitions.
CBI said that one of the quash petitions filed by the accused is pending before the High Court and 8 are pending before the Supreme Court.