Two more accused withdraw quash plea

Hyderabad: Close on the heels of Dalmia Cements chief Punith Dalmia withdrawing his quash plea from the high court, two more accused in separate charge sheets related to Indu Tech Zone and Indu-housing board cases withdrew their quash pleas on Monday. Punith Dalmia is an accused in the Dalmia Cements charge sheet of quid pro quo case. In all these cases, AP chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy is A1 accused.

Justice Ujjal Bhuyan dismissed their pleas as withdrawn. Indu Projects promoter I Syam Prasad Reddy and former VC and MD of APIIC BP Acharya withdrew their pleas on Monday. CBI counsel K Surender objected to the belated withdrawals charging the accused with deploying such methods to delay the trial.

They filed these pleas in the

HC

five years ago and got stay orders and prevented trial court from taking up cases, he said, adding, now they were withdrawing pleas because HC started hearing pleas. “Now they will go and file fresh discharge pleas before trial court and there will be another round of litigation starting from the trial court on these discharge pleas,” he said. The judge later heard the quash plea of V D Rajagopal, the former director of AP mines wing, who was made an accused in Penna Cements charge sheet and reserved his judgment.