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ACB raids Revanth’s house, draws a ‘blank’
ACB raids Revanth’s house, draws a ‘blank’. In a predawn swoop, sleuths of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Telangana on Tuesday conducted searches at the residences of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLA A Revanth Reddy and two other accused in the cash-for-vote scam that rocked both the Telugu speaking States last week.
FUTILE SWOOP
The searches were conducted before dawn, hours before the questioning of the accused on the fourth day of his custody
Hyderabad: In a predawn swoop, sleuths of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Telangana on Tuesday conducted searches at the residences of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLA A Revanth Reddy and two other accused in the cash-for-vote scam that rocked both the Telugu speaking States last week.
The ACB officials searched the houses of Revanth Reddy, Sebastian Harry and Uday Simha at different places in Hyderabad. Armed with a search warrant, 10 to 15 officials of the ACB searched Revanth Reddy's house in Jubilee Hills, one of his lawyers said. The investigating agency checked documents relating to bank accounts, lands and passports. The lawyer said the officials found nothing relating to the case. The searches were conducted before dawn, hours before the questioning of the accused on the fourth day.
Revanth Reddy, a member of the Telangana State Legislative Assembly, was arrested by the ACB on May 31 when he offered Rs 50 lakh to nominated MLA Elvis Stephenson to make him vote for TDP-BJP candidate in the elections to Telangana Legislative Council. Revanth Reddy's aides were also arrested in the trap laid by ACB on a complaint filed by Stephenson. The next day, a city court had sent the three accused to judicial custody for two days. The court later granted ACB four-day custody of the accused.
The agency is trying to elicit information from the accused about the source of Rs 50 lakh and also from where they planned to bring Rs 4.5 crore as part of the Rs.5 crore deal. The agency is also questioning them with regard to the complicity of other political leaders in the scam, according to sources in the anti-graft agency.
The case took a dramatic turn on Sunday when an audio tape of an alleged telephonic conversation of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu with Stephenson surfaced in a private television channel promoted by ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). While the TRS government in Telangana said the audio tape proved that Naidu was the mastermind of the scam, TDP denied that the voice on tape was Naidu's.
