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Hyderabad, May 14: CBI which was entrusted with the duty of serving summons on the YSR Congress chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in the assets case, has on Monday succeeded in handing over them, directing him to appear before the Special Court here on May 28. The CBI special court which has accepted the first charge-sheet of the CBI in which Jagan, his deputy Vijaya Sai Reddy and eleven others were named accused, has issued summons for them to appear before it on May 28. The court has also given the agency the responsibility of serving the summons on all the accused individually. As Jagan has been moving about in his hectic election campaign, CBI had a tough time catching up with him. On Sunday, a two-member team was dispatched to Kurnool where the Kadapa MP was touring, to serve the summons. The officers have found him in the residence of party leader Chennakesava Reddy in Yemmiganur and served the summons on him on Monday morning. As per the summons, Jagan has to appear before the CBI special court at 1030 am, on July 28. Though the Lotus Pond residence of Jagan was mentioned as his address in Hyderabad, CBI wanted to serve the summons on Jagan personally and finally succeeded in handing over the papers to him. CBI sleuths who reached Yemmiganur on Sunday itself, have waited till Monday morning as Jagan was in the midst of people, addressing election rallies. On Monday morning they went to Chennakeshava Reddy’s house looking like ordinary civilians and then identified themselves before serving the summons. Speculations are rife if Jagan would be arrested on the day he appears before the court. Though no one has any inkling of what would happen on the day he appears before the court, YSR Congress leadership appears to be prepared for that eventuality. It is learnt that Jagan has informed his top aides that his mother Vijayamma would continue the election campaign, if he was arrested and has requested them to guide her. Jagan’s associates are stating that arrest of their leader would mean sympathy for the family and a doom for the Congress party.
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh government has stopped all its advertisements to the Sakshi newspaper and television channel owned by YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy.
The government asked all departments, agencies, public sector undertakings, corporations and organisations to stop releasing advertisements and notifications to Sakshi as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against the media house.
An order to this effect was released Wednesday night by the general administration department.
The move came two days after the CBI froze the bank accounts of Jagati Publications, which publishes the Telugu daily, Indira Television, which runs the 24-hour news channel, and Janani Infrastructure firm.
Eleven current accounts of these companies that together had Rs.10.31 crore and fixed deposits of Rs.103 crore were seized by the CBI as part of the investigation into the alleged illegal assets of Jaganmohan Reddy, the son of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
The companies owned by the Kadapa MP have already challenged the CBI action. They alleged that the freezing of accounts had virtually paralysed the daily and the TV channel and put at stake the future of 20,000 employees.
The newspaper and channel were launched in 2008 when YSR, as Rajasekhara Reddy was popularly known, was the chief minister. A government order was also issued on April 24, 2008 permitting the commissioner information and public relations to issue advertisements to Sakshi while relaxing certain conditions.
Jagan has already described the CBI action as a conspiracy against him and an attack on the freedom of press. The management of Sakshi said the freezing of bank accounts would badly affect its functioning.
It pays a monthly salary of Rs.8 crore to its employees and incurs Rs.35 crore a month as operational expenditure, Rs.20 crore a month on newsprint and Rs.7 crore on administrative overheads.
The freezing of bank accounts has come under flak from journalist unions. They staged protests in different parts of the state and submitted a memorandum to Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan seeking his intervention.
The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has also condemned the CBI action saying this could lead to abrupt stoppage of the newspaper and render over 10,000 employees jobless.
The CBI, which booked Jagan and 72 others last year following direction from the Andhra Pradesh High Court, has filed three chargesheets against him, his companies, close aides and firms that invested in his businesses.
While taking cognisance of the first chargesheet, the CBI court has issued summons to Jagan and 12 others to appear in the court on May 28.
The investigating agency claims that the investments into Sakshi and other companies owned by the MP were made in return for the favours doled out to the investors by YSR on quid-pro-quo basis.
The freezing of bank accounts and stoppage of government advertisements came at a time when ruling Congress, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and YSR Congress are gearing up for June 12 by-elections to the Nellore Lok Sabha and 18 assembly seats.
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