A trap is being tightened around former minister and YCP leader Jogi Ramesh in the case of illegal registration of Agrigold lands. A team of 15 ACB officials started searches at his residence in Ibrahimpatnam early morning. CID has recently registered a case on this incident.
As there are government employees among the accused, cases have been registered against them under ACB sections. The CID had earlier attached the land in the name of Agrigold directors in Ambapuram village of Vijayawada rural mandal.
Jogi Ramesh, who had created documents purporting to have purchased the land bearing the same survey numbers, seized the land. In this matter, the management of Agrigold approached the AP High Court two weeks ago. With this, AP CID started action.
Cases have been registered against 9 people after finding preliminary evidence of irregularities in the land under CID attachment.
About ten days ago, the CID registered a case against Jogi Ramesh’s son Rajeev, Babai Venkateswara Rao and seven others. ACB also registered against the accused as the AP government ordered to take strict action against the accused in this case.
According to preliminary information, Jogi Ramesh’s son Jogi Rajeev, Jogi Venkateswara Rao, Adusumilli Mohana Ramdasu, Venkate Sita Mahalakshmi, Village Surveyor Dedipya, Mandal Surveyor Ramesh, Deputy Tahsildar Vijaykumar, Vijayawada Rural Tahsildar Jahnavi and Vijayawada Registrar Nageswara Rao are present. Seven government employees are among the accused.
The CID has found that all of them have collaborated to steal Agrigold lands with the involvement of former minister Jogi Ramesh. They created fake documents for non-existent land and opened it up to illegality. Mandal Surveyor Ramesh was found to have played a key role in this scan.
Around 3000 yards of land in Ambapuram village of Vijayawada rural mandal was forcibly acquired by creating false documents in the name of the former minister’s son. Cases have been registered since 2015 in cases where deposits were collected from clients against the rules. The investigation is still ongoing in the case of Agrigold, which has spread across four to five states.