The Supreme Court docket on Thursday sought a report from the CBI on a plea filed by mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy to go to and keep for 4 weeks in his native district Bellary to fulfill his daughter who has delivered a baby not too long ago.
Reddy, accused in a multi-crore unlawful mining case, has been out on bail since 2015 and several other circumstances together with prohibiting him from visiting Bellary in Karnataka and Ananthpur and Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh had been imposed by the apex court docket in its order.
A bench of justices M R Shah and Krishna Murari requested CBI to investigate into the problem and submit a report by Friday.
“Senior advocate Meenakshi Arora, showing for the petitioner, has prayed to allow the applicant/petitioner to go to Bellary at the very least for 4 weeks from in the present day as his daughter has delivered a baby solely two days again.
“Let the CBI enquire into the identical and report back to this court docket tomorrow. For orders, listing tomorrow,” the bench mentioned.
Reddy was granted conditional bail by the apex court docket in January 2015 after spending greater than three years in jail.
Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy, managing director of the Obalapuram Mining Firm (OMC), had been arrested by CBI on September 5, 2011, from Bellary and delivered to Hyderabad.
The corporate is accused of fixing mining lease boundary markings and indulging in unlawful mining within the Bellary Reserve Forest space, unfold over Bellary in Karnataka and the Ananthpur district of Andhra Pradesh.
Whereas granting bail, the highest court docket had directed him to give up his passport earlier than the involved trial court docket and to not depart the nation with out the permission of the trial decide.