Vijay Sai files defamation suit against Chandrababu Naidu, Ramoji

Mr Vijay Sai Reddy, the auditor of Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy and accused no 2 in the Jagan Mohan Reddy illegal assets case, has filed a defamation case against Telugu Desam president Mr Chandrababu Naidu, Telugu Desam leader Mr Dadi Veerabhadra Rao, and Eenadu chairman Mr Ramoji Rao, for making scandalous statements about him and publishing the same in Eenadu.

In his petition filed in the court of the third additional chief metropolitan magistrate, Mr Sai Reddy alleged that the Central Bureau of Investigation investigating the illegal assets case, has been disclosing information to the media, specially Eenadu, pertaining to the investigation of the illegal assets case. He also alleged that Mr Ramoji Rao is a beneficiary of Mr Chandrababu Naidu. Further, he has alleged that Mr Chandrababu Naidu and Mr Dadi Veerabhadra Rao have been targeting Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy because they could not accept the growing popularity of the YSR Congress and its leader.

In the petition filed through his counsel, Mr Sai Reddy has accused Mr Chandrababu Naidu and Mr Dadi Veerabhadra Rao of having used the Eenadu newspaper run by Ramoji Rao to publish an article on June 9 titled Ghori+Gajini=Jagan. He alleged that all three of them have called him a benami and a beneficiary of the land allotted by the government to Nelcast company. Mr Sai Reddy said that there was no truth to all this and requested the court to consider it as defamation.
ED records Sunil, Koneru statements
A team of ED officials reached Chanchalguda prison on Tuesday to record the statements of the accused in the Emaar scam. These were: Sunil Reddy, close associate of Jagan Mohan Reddy; Emaar MGF south India financial head Vijaya Raghav and Timex group chairman Koneru Prasad. The questioning focused on the method of the flow of money to India. ED sought personal information from the three individuals, like details of personal bank accounts as well as their personal investments and properties.

The questioning was based on the chargesheet and a supplementary chargesheet filed in the Emaar scam case. Sunil Reddy is alleged to be privy to information on the end use of money in the scam. But sources say that Sunil Reddy was for the most part uncommunicative, disappointing the ED questioners by his unsatisfactory answers. The statements of the accused were recorded in their own handwriting. After this interrogation, the ED has completed recording the statements of all the accused in Chanchalguda prison. It has, however, been granted an additional 15 days by the special court for CBI cases, to finish the process.