Ex-judge’s attender carried cash to bank: Anti corruption bureau

HYDERABAD: The ACB probing the cash-for-bail case on Friday revealed that an attender carried the bags containing cash from the residence of retired district judge T V Chalapathi Rao’s brother to bank. The attender continued to work for Chalapathi Rao even after the latter’s retirement. The ACB counsel brought this to the notice of M Jagannadham, the principal special judge of ACB court while seeking a five day custody of Chalapathi Rao and Ravichandra, the son of arrested judge Pattabhirama Rao in the case.The judge reserved his orders to Saturday.
The ACB sleuths arrested Pattabhirama Rao, his son Ravichandra and retired district judge Chalapathi Rao in the cash-for-bail case. ACB has charged CBI court judge Pattabhirama Rao with entering into a criminal conspiracy with friends and relatives of Gali Janardhan Reddy for bailing out the mining scam accused. ACB is now seeking the custody of Chalapathi and Ravichandra to interrogate them and extract the truth of the matter from them.
The ACB counsel told the court that it was Chalapathi Rao who spoke to the bank manager and got access to five lockers in the bank. The keys of these lockers were found with Ravichandra. The investigating officials seized Rs 1.60 crore from these lockers and an additional amount of Rs 1.10 crore was seized from the residence of Chalapathi’s brother, the counsel said. When the CBI officials who initially investigated the case questioned Chalapathi about the source of this income, he told them that he got this money after he sold his agricultural land in Guntur district to one Koteswara Rao. But when the officials questioned Koteswara Rao, he denied buying any land from the former judge, the ACB counsel said.