HYDERABAD: She remains aloof of late and isn’t seen anywhere except the CBI office where she is a regular. Her colleagues prefer to keep distance while even chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, whom she had desperately tried to meet over the last few days, did not evince much interest when she approached him.Once considered the most powerful woman bureaucrat in the government, Y Srilakshmi today is but a shadow of her former self. “There is nothing to look forward in life now. I have been defamed completely. I have no future in the administrative service,” is what the senior IAS officer reportedly told her CBI interrogators who are trying to extract information on her alleged role in granting mining leases to the Obulapuram Mining Company run by jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Sources disclosed to Express that during her recent grilling session with CBI, Srilakshmi became emotional and told the CBI about the “trauma” she was undergoing. “I am now living only for my children,” she told them with tears in her eyes.All along she reportedly blames former chief minister late YS Rajasekhara Reddy, saying she had signed files “under pressure,” and then curses her fate. “I joined the service at a young age of 22 and I would have gone to the highest level in the administrative service but it is all over now,” said Srilakshmi.CBI officials said: “While questioning is on, she suddenly turns sentimental. We have no option but to listen to it all. However, we get her back to answering our queries on the illegal mining case,” sources said.Known to be one of the richest bureaucrats, Srilakshmi is likely to undergo more grilling by the agency, sources said.
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