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
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