POSTED: UPDATE – 12:55AM, TUESDAY – NOV 15 22
BJPs are alleged to have provided the MLA with huge sums of money, key Saffron positions and central government contracts.
Hyderabad: The SIT is investigating a covert operation by the BJP to lure four TRS (now BRS) MLAs, finding that Ramachandra Bharathi, one of the three accused in the case, was in close contact with two officials working in one of the most important central government offices in New Delhi .
SIT investigators examined Bharathi’s call data records and found that he had been in touch with a Ravi Vashist, believed to be a deputy minister in the Indian government.
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Bharathi is well connected and despite calling himself Swamy, he is married to Parul who works in Niti Aayog. Investigators also learned that he had good connections at the top of the central government and was believed to have prior knowledge of the positions of key officials.
He is also considered the conduit for the best positions for officials. The SIT survey is also gaining momentum, with data analysis being carried out at 30 locations across the country. SIT has so far retrieved 5 terabytes of data from the phones and computers of the three defendants, the sources said.
The source further added that citing information gathered from the interrogation of the three arrested persons, the BJP-led central government is planning to conduct raids on six TRS lawmakers Muthireddy Yadagirireddy, A Gandhi, Marri Janardhan Reddy. , Rajender Reddy, Pila Shekal Reddy and Shay Reddy.
Apart from this, four ministers of state – Forest Minister A Indrakaran Reddy, GST Minister Srinivas Goud, Livestock Minister T Srinivas Yadav and Labour Minister Ch Malla Reddy – are also on the radar. Meanwhile, the additional special judge of the SPE and ACB case court in Nampalli, Hyderabad, on Monday rejected bail applications for three BJP agents who were arrested by Moinabad police in the TRS MLA poaching case.
The three – Nanda Kumar, owner of two business establishments, Deccan Kitchen Hotel and Film Nagar; Bharati alias S Satish Sharma, from Faridabad, near Delhi; and Simhayajulu from Tirupati – last month arrested.
Three BJP “agents” were arrested allegedly trying to lure four MLAs of the ruling TRS (BRS). These BJP men are alleged to have offered the MLA huge sums of money, key saffron positions and central government contracts. Police arrested and remanded them after Tandur MLA pilot Rohith Reddy lodged a complaint.
“During the bail application debate, government lawyers argued that the investigation was at a preliminary stage and that if the trio were granted bail they risked tampering with evidence and influencing witnesses,” a police source said. The trio are currently on judicial remand, and was held in the Central Prison.
