HYDERABAD: After a brief pause, investigation into the case of money per vote has taken momentum with Telangana and Andhra Pradesh police doing tit-for-tat move.
Hours after the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) served a notice on a driver attached to the headquarters of TDP, AP Crime Investigation Department (CID) dispatched warnings to the driver and gunman son of Chief Minister of Telangana and IT Minister K Taraka Rama Rao on the basis of a complaint by Mathias Jerusalem, an accused in the bribery case.
On Wednesday, detectives ACB stick a notice on the front door of the driver Kondal Reddy Yousufguda they found the house locked. The notice, served under Section 160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and signed by ACB additional SP M Malla Reddy, it states that the driver has to appear before the investigating officer in the office of the ACB in Road No. 12 Banjara Hills by 10.30 am on Thursday in connection with the case of money for votes.
On May 31, TDP MLA A Revanth Reddy and two others were arrested for trying to bribe lawmakers nominated Stephenson Elvis vote for the party’s candidate in the elections of MLC. ACB sources said some calls were made from the phone Kondal Reddy the main suspects in the bribery case at the time of the trap in the last week of May.
“We question Kondal Reddy on certain calls made from and received on your cell phone,” said an official of the ACB.
Tuesday night, the ACB officials went to the headquarters TDP NTR Trust Bhavan Road No. 2, Banjara Hills to serve notice on Kondal Reddy, but the staff did not inform them that would be in the prime minister’s residence on Highway Number AP 45, Jubilee Hills. The CBA team then went to the residence of Chandrababu Naidu, Reddy Kondal but found there. They returned without serving notice. On Wednesday, the message is stuck in the door of his home at Venkatagiri. Although ACB Kondal Reddy sources say could be a conductor connected to the headquarters of TDP, he learned that Kondal Reddy could be one of the drivers of the son of Nara Lokesh Naidu.
In a mirror image action, CID detectives AP on Wednesday sent warnings to the driver and the shooter IT & Minister panchayat raj K Taraka Rama Rao, asking the duo to appear before the investigator in charge of the case registered in denouncing Jerusalem agent.
Wednesday night, the CID detectives went to the field office of the chief K Chandrasekhar Rao Telangana in Begumpet to serve ads in the KTR gunman and the driver Satyanarayana Janakiram minister asking to appear before CID SP K Koteswara Rao in the office regional CID in Satyanarayanapuram, Vijayawada at 10 am on August 14 in connection with the investigation of the complaint called threat from Jerusalem. As the two were not found in the official residence of Telangana CM, the CID team went to the residence of KTR Nandinagar to complete the formalities.
Jerusalem had filed a complaint with the police Satyanarayanapuram Vijayawada in June alleging that he had received calls from anonymous callers who asked him to involve Naidu in the case of money for votes threatening.
