GOs issued without minister’s consent

GUNTUR: The high-profile all-India services officer K V Brahmananda Reddy has landed himself in big trouble after the CBI investigators found that he had issued government orders on the Vanpic project without obtaining the nod of the minister concerned.
While CBI found senior IAS officer Srilakshmi taking personal interest in removing certain words from the note files to favour the Obulapuram Mining Company , the agency found Brahmananda Reddy committing serious crimes as he had issued several GOs to favour the Vanpic promoters without following the business rules.
Brahmananda Reddy, who was the special secretary in the ports, investment and infrastructure department for nearly four years, ruled the roost when the late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was at the helm.
A few months back, CBI grilled the former ports and infrastructure minister and now excise minister, Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, who reportedly submitted a detailed note to the CBI on the way the project was proposed and moved before the cabinet. Sources said the CBI officials, who questioned Ramana for over three hours, reportedly showed him all the GOs issued during his regime. He was asked to confirm whether all those GOs were issued with his knowledge . Confirming some discrepancies in the note files, the minister is said to have submitted a bunch of GOs issued with his knowledge and feigned ignorance about the others. Sources said that the CBI officials told the minister that they possessed few specific GOs which seemed to have not been routed through the ministry.