TDP leader's house searched

GUNTUR: In what could be a curious twist to the cash-for-bail scam, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths launched a search operation at the residence of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader Kolli Lakshmaiah Chowdary of Mangalagiri town on Saturday.
Lakshmaiah, a civil contractor, is said to have had links with top political leaders of Karnataka, including the family of former Prime Minister Deve Gowda and now jailed mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy.Sources said that rowdy-sheeter Yadagiri Rao, who played a key role in the cash-for-bail scam, gave details of Lakshmaiah's involvement in the deal to ACB.
According to the information, Lakshmaiah was the person who introduced Yadagiri to the arrested judicial officer TV Chalapathi Rao. Chalapathi Rao worked as a judge in Guntur district has had links with Lakshmaiah.
Lakshmaiah in the process of a settling few land disputes in Hyderabad sought the Yadagiri's assistance in return of introducing him to new friends in the legal fraternity. Eagerly waiting for such ties, Yadagiri reportedly helped Lakshmaiah in settling few land deals in and around Hyderabad city. Subsequently, both met judge Chalapathi Rao and struck several other deals. In fact, Gali Janardhan Reddy's family took the services of Yadagiri to rope-in the judge of CBI court Pattabhirama Rao only because of his connections with Chalapathi Rao.
ACB suspects that Lakshmaiah Chowdary also had a role in striking the deal with the judges along with rowdy-sheeter Yadagiri Rao. The ACB team went to Lakshmaiah's residence in the town in the afternoon
and tried to hand over the summons to him.
However, he fled from his place even before the ACB team reached his house. With family members of Lakshmaiah refusing to accept the notices, the ACB team pasted them on the main door of Lakshmaiah's house asking him to appear before them within two days of receiving them.