Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested senior IAS officer Y Srilakshmi on charges of abusing her official position and granting favours in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy.
She was arrested for role in the criminal conspiracy, for abusing the official position and thereby granting favours to OMC (owned by Gali Janardhan Reddy), said CBI Joint Director (Hyderabad Zone) V V Lakshmi Narayana.
Currently the commissioner of family welfare, Srilakshmi is the fourth person to be arrested in this case. Recently, her official duties had been assigned to another officer.
She was the secretary of Andhra Pradesh Industrial Department when late Y S Rajasekhar Reddy was chief minister. As per CBI, she favoured OMC in allotting mining lease, overlooking the bids of others, during this period.
She had been questioned three-four times by CBI earlier, with regard to allotment of mining leases during 2004 to 2009.
One of the major allegations is about grant of mining lease over 68.5 hectares at Obulapuram in Anantapur district.
A CBI team went to the family welfare department office and brought her to CBI office at Koti. In the evening she was produced before the metropolitan magistrate who directed the agency to produce her before a special CBI court tomorrow.
Her husband is an IPS officer, currently posted with CID.
The CBI had earlier arrested Gali Janardhan Reddy, his brother-in-law and OMC's MD, B V Srinivasa Reddy and V C Rajgopal, former director of AP Mines in this case.
In the course of investigation, it has also recorded the statements of Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy, who was mines minister in YSR government; senior IAS officer M G V K Bhanu and retired IAS officer K Prabhakar Reddy.
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