Notices served on Jagan

                                                                                      

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday morning served e notices on Kadapa MP Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy to appear before it on May 25.

Sources said CBI officials went to the residence of a local leader of the YSR Congress, Thumma Joseph Reddy, at Rentachintala in Guntur district where Mr. Jagan had halted for the night after campaigning.

Soon after the notices were served, Mr. Jagan's aides rushed to Hyderabad with a copy to file a lunch motion petition in the High Court to pray for exemption till June 10.

Sources said the YSR Congress chief got wind of the CBI's move on Monday itself while campaigning in Macherla constituency and was in telephonic consultations with party leaders at Chintala tanda, a tribal hamlet near Vijayapuri south.

Meanwhile, Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal expressed his inability to stop any of the CBI proceedings against Mr. Jagan on the ground that the matter involved a larger issue that had to be dealt with by the Election Commission.

YSRCP plea

Speaking to reporters after YSR Congress leaders submitted a representation seeking his intervention for postponement of Mr. Jagan's appearance before the CBI and its reported move to arrest him, till the close of the by-elections on June 15, he said he would refer the plea to the EC and give his remarks if sought by the EC.

The CEO, however, agreed to ascertain, through the State Level Committee on Media Certification and Monitoring, whether the lead reports which appeared in two Telugu dailies on Tuesday with similar headlines and reports dubbing the late YSR as a criminal, amounted to paid news.

from Hindu