A particular court docket for instances involving elected representatives in Karnataka has ordered the detention of former BJP minister and disqualified MLA G Janardhan Reddy within the Bengaluru central jail to facilitate trial in 5 CBI instances of unlawful mining.
The particular court docket handed the order on Tuesday after the previous minister, sentenced to a seven-year jail time period by a CBI particular court docket in Hyderabad on Might 6 in an unlawful mining case filed in Telangana, was produced on the idea of a court docket order.
The previous minister, who was disqualified as a BJP MLA by the Karnataka Meeting quickly after his Might 6 conviction, instructed the court docket on Tuesday that it could be tough to continually transfer him from the Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad to Bengaluru to face trial within the unlawful mining instances pending within the particular court docket.
“By contemplating the provisions of Sec.270 of Cr.P.C., it could be acceptable to challenge mandatory instructions to the jail authorities at Chanchalguda Central Jail, Hyderabad Outdated Metropolis to detain accused No.6 G. Janardhan Reddy and accused No.7 Mehfuz Ali Khan at Central Jail, Bengaluru until 04.06.2025 since trial is mounted constantly and it could trigger lot of hardship in direction of the manufacturing of accused underneath physique warrant,” the court docket dominated.
Earlier this month, quickly after Reddy’s conviction alongside together with his aide Mehfuz Ali Khan, the CBI’s senior prosecutor moved the Bengaluru court docket saying that trial in a number of unlawful mining instances in opposition to the previous minister and Khan was pending in Karnataka. The instances have been registered on the instructions of the Supreme Court docket.
Primarily based on the CBI prosecutor’s plea, the Bengaluru court docket on Might 8 directed jail authorities in Telangana to provide Reddy and Khan. “The court docket is passing the order conserving in thoughts the pendency of the aforesaid instances that are all set down for trial earlier than this court docket,” the particular court docket famous on Might 8.
On Tuesday, Reddy was produced within the particular court docket in reference to the Dream Logistics case, the place he’s accused of conniving with forest and mining officers “to illegally excavate enormous portions of iron ore” from forests in Bellary, the place he was district in-charge minister in 2009-10.
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Reddy is charged with inflicting “wrongful lack of Rs 38.66 crore to the exchequer of the state”, making positive aspects for himself, and inflicting public loss and felony conspiracy within the Dream Logistics case.
The previous BJP minister can also be accused within the Related Mining Firm case of illegally excavating 24 lakh metric tonnes from the Dalmia Mines and not using a mining licence and utilizing solid paperwork to make a wrongful achieve of Rs 218 crore in 2009-2011.
In a 3rd case, Reddy is accused of inflicting a lack of Rs 198 crore to the state by facilitating unlawful mining in Bellary by a number of companies of his associates. In one other case, he’s alleged to have facilitated unlawful mining within the forests of Bellary resulting in the unlawful excavation of iron ore price over Rs 100 crore.
Reddy, 58, made a return to the BJP in 2024 after being within the political wilderness for almost a decade owing to the unlawful mining instances from the 2009-2012 interval.
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An investigation into unlawful mining by the Karnataka Lokayukta in 2010-11 revealed the unlawful export of iron ore price greater than Rs 12,228 crore from Karnataka between 2006 and 2011 by a mining mafia operated by Reddy, who had turned Bellary into his fiefdom.
Primarily based on the Lokayukta findings, the Supreme Court docket ordered a CBI inquiry into the unlawful mining actions that befell throughout the BJP authorities’s tenure in Karnataka from 2008-13. The CBI has thus registered 9 instances in opposition to Reddy and others. The trial within the instances in opposition to the previous BJP minister is but to achieve a conclusive stage.