! " !"#$!%&'( 7,4%$!%&'(& !"#$% *./%/*%0 )*+,'- #$%&$'( " # + + ) + ) *)+ $ %& '()*+, -%+ -%'- *$, . *(%& . &'. 6 + + ) (% *&/ .% $%. '* , , -. /01 2 3!4 , ((!" &'&( () *%'*+"#, - "$. 0 0 Verma to be “spared” in a case ate assets of YS Jaganmohan cial irregularities in his record. adding that the BJP is trying to under CBI investigation. Reddy. It was alleged that the Now his name has again suffocate the TDP leaders. Asthana complained to the YSR Government had allocat- cropped up in the context of Mohammed Ali Shabbir: Cabinet Secretariat that Sana ed 22,000 acre land to indus- infighting in the CBI. While Shabbir is presently the Leader had reached a settlement with trialist Nimmagadda Prasad Asthana alleged that he medi- of Opposition in Telangana the CBI Director Alok Verma in Guntur-Prakasham belt and ated on behalf of Sana, Ramesh Legislative Council and is like- to avoid his arrest through in quid pro quo the industrial- has alleged that there was a ly to contest Assembly elec- Chandrababu Naidu, and TDP member of Rajya Sabha ist made an investment of 854 high-level conspiracy hatched tions. His name was men- Mohammed Ali Shabbir, senior and industrialist CM Ramesh. crores in Jagan’s companies. In by BJP president Amit Shah to tioned in the purported state- he vortex of internal war in Congress leader in Telangana. Sana has now become a its chargesheet in this case, the frame him. ment Sana gave to the CBI Tthe premier investigation Another interesting name complainant against Asthana CBI had said that Sana had Ramesh, who is in Vienna alleging that Shabbir had agency, Central Bureau of coming up in the context of and accused that at his behest paid 50 lakh to Moin Qureshi along with his family, said in a accompanied him to the CBI Investigation, is threatening to raging controversy is that of Sana’s statement was “falsified” to settle the case and appoint statement that he was being tar- office in Delhi to lodge a com- suck in many prominent polit- former Joint Director of CBI by Deputy SP Devender Kumar the VV Lakshminarayna as geted systematically by Amit plaint against Asthana and ical figures of Andhra Pradesh VV Lakshminayrana, who to “frame” the CBI boss in meat the CBI Joint Director in Shah and the BJP Government Deputy SP Devendar Kumar. and Telangana. recently took voluntary retire- exporter Moin Qureshi case. Hyderabad. Later ever since he contested and was Shabbir strongly denied While a controversial busi- ment from service to enter The Hyderabad-based Lakshminarayana had led the elected to the Public Accounts allegation that he visited the nessman from Andhra active politics. industrialist, Sana, is quite an high places include late Chief It was in a money laun- investigations into cases against Committee of Parliament. “I CBI office with Sana. Pradesh, Satish Babu Sana, is at Different stories are doing influential and well connected Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, dering case related to Moin Jagan. won despite opposition of Amit Interestingly Shabbir’s name the heart of the ongoing war the rounds about each of these figure. From his humble start his son YS Jaganmohan Reddy, Qureshi that Sana was facing a But Sana denied the alle- Shah and I was warned of already figures in the between the two top officials of key players whose profile make as an employee of Government present Chief Minister N CBI investigation. The CBI gation and said that he had consequences,” he said. Enforcement Directorate CBI — Director Alok Verma interesting reading: electricity department at Chandrababu Naidu, KVP FIR booked against Asthana made a legal investment in Ramesh also said the BJP chargesheet in which it was and Special Director Rakesh Satish Babu Sana: He has Kakinada — a job he got on Ramachandra Rao, MP, CM says that a Dubai-based middle Moin Qureshi’s meat export Government was going after claimed that Shabbir and Moin Asthana — over an alleged emerged as a pivotal figure in compassionate ground after Ramesh, noted film producer man had paid 3 crore as a company. him because he took up the Qureshi had visited the CBI bribery case within the agency, the entire sordid drama as it the death of his father — Sana D Suresh and prominent indus- bribe to a conduit named CM Ramesh: Industrialist- case of steel plant in Kadapa office to help Hyderabad-based many more names from the was based on his complaint that went places and today he is a trialist Nimmagadda Prasad Somesh Prasad for settling the turned-politician CM Ramesh and sat on a hunger strike to jeweller Sakesh Gupta of MBS two Telugu States have cropped the CBI registered FIR against director of half a dozen com- and controversial meat case in his favour. was recently in the news when press the issue. jewellers. up. They include CM Ramesh, its number 2 officer Special panies and was closely associ- exporter Moin Qureshi, who is Controversies are not new the Income Tax department “The allegation that I Shabbir said he did not Telugu Desam Party MP and a Director Rakesh Asthana. Sana ated with several top politicians now facing charges of tax eva- for Satish Babu Sana. Earlier, he and Enforcement Directorate mediated between the CBI receive any notice from the CBI close associate of Andhra reportedly told the CBI he and people from Telugu film sion and illegal transfer of was under CBI scrutiny in one carried out raids against his Director and Sana is fabricat- but confirmed that he knew Pradesh Chief Minister N paid a bribe of 2 crore to Alok industries. List of his friends in money. of the cases of disproportion- companies and claimed finan- ed and baseless,” he said, both Sakesh Gupta and Sana. noise and smoke emission lim- nice balance between compet- PM reduction by 30-35 per its of the crackers will have to ing interests of right to liveli- cent and significant reduction eople in the country can be approved by the Petroleum hood and health and con- in nitrogen oxide and sulphar Pburst firecrackers from 8 and Explosive Safety cerned authorities to imple- dioxide. PM to 10 PM only on Diwali Organization (PESO), under ment the same with immediate “On Diwali days or on any and other festivals, the Supreme the Department of Industrial effect. other festivals like Gurpurab, Court said on Tuesday, allow- Policy and Promotion, “The crackers with reduced etc, when such fireworks gen- ing manufacture and sale of just Ministry of Commerce and emission (improved crackers) erally take place, it would strict- the “green crackers” which Industry. and green crackers...Only ly be from 8 pm till 10 pm only. !" have low emission of light, To curb pollution in Delhi- would be permitted to be man- On Christmas even and New hanks to the Puri Police, sound and harmful chemicals. National Capital Region ufactured and sold,” it said Year eve, when such fireworks TDalit woman Daudi Mallick, The top court carved out (NCR), it directed the Centre, while banning the production start around midnight, i.E. 12 a victim of trafficking, has final- an exception for the Christmas the Delhi Government and and sale of crackers other than am, it would be from 11:55 pm ly been rescued from Madhya and the New Year eve saying State Governments of NCR to green crackers. till 12:30 am only,” the court Pradesh, where she had been he CBI will be interrogat- that crackers for these occa- permit community fire-crack- According to the sugges- said. sold off and was being tor- Ting its own Dy SP sions would be burst between ing, wherever it could be done. tions of Union of India, With regard to communi- tured. Devendra Kumar for one week 11.55 pm and 12.30 am, since A Bench of Justices AK “improved crackers” are those ty fire-cracking in Delhi-NCR, The joint efforts of MP’s in the custody in the murky these celebrations start at mid- Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said which avoid use of ash as des- the court said the Centre and Ashok Nagar police and Puri bribery scandal that reached night. though burning of crackers iccant or filler materials in state governments of NCR police helped locating the the Delhi High Court on It also banned the manu- during Diwali was not the only crackers for reduction in should pre-identify particular woman along with her handi- Tuesday. facture, sale and use of joined reason for worsening air qual- particulate matters by 15-20 per area/fields and the exercise capped girl child. After her The court sent Kumar, a firecrackers (series crackers or ity, it contributed to air pollu- cent. should be completed within a arrival at the Puri railway plat- member of CBI Special laris) saying that they cause tion in a significant way. It said that the green crack- week so that public at large is form at about 11am on Tuesday Director RK Asthana probe “huge air, noise and solid waste The Bench accepted the ers are those which have low informed about the designat- by the Ajmeer-Puri express, she team, to seven-day custody problems”. suggestions given by the Centre emission sound and light emit- ed places one week before straightway moved to the Sadar and directed the CBI to main- The apex court said the saying the measures strive a ting functional crackers with Diwali. police station for appearance tain status quo on the criminal along with her parents. After a proceedings initiated against preliminary interrogation, she Asthana. # $ $ was asked by the police to go Both Kumar and Asthana home and reappear on have challenged the FIR lodged Wednesday for a detailed against him on bribery allega- ! % grilling.