Janardhana Reddy

Former Karnataka minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy on Sunday announced a new party named "Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha". With this, the leader who is an accused in illegal mining case, has cut his two-decade-old association with the BJP. He also announced he will contest the 2023 Assembly polls from Gangavathi in Koppal district.

Former minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, jailed in Hyderabad on charges of illegal mining, was brought to Bangalore late on Wednesday night.

Ballari Superintendent of Police Pavan Nejjur was suspended after a Congress worker was killed outside BJP MLA G Janardhana Reddy's residence. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah ordered an inquiry into the incident, with FIRs registered against Reddy and former minister B Sriramulu. The CM emphasized the need to identify the source of the fatal bullet.

Taken aback by the sudden arrest of G Janardhana Reddy, the Reddy family household have turned to priests and astrologers for solace. Reports say that Janardhana Reddy conducted a homa, with 50 priests who had arrived from Tirupathi, on the day before his arrest, a 'sankalpa' for a supposed new political party that was planned to be floated as a culmination of the Sriramulu resignation episode.

National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR) founder-president S R Hiremath has alleged that the associates of former minister Gali Janardhana Reddy have also violated Land Reforms Sct by illegally acquiring more mining land in Bellary district.

A political clash in Ballari over banner placement escalated into violence, resulting in the death of a Congress worker. Stone-pelting and police lathicharge preceded gunfire near MLA Gali Janardhana Reddy's residence. Janardhana Reddy accused rival MLA Bharat Reddy's supporters of an assassination attempt, a charge Bharat Reddy denies. Additional police are deployed.

The Central Crime Branch wing of the Bengaluru police on Sunday arrested former Karnataka minister and BJP's strongman from Ballari, Gali Janardhana Reddy, after a marathon interrogation session over his role in the alleged Rs 600-crore Ponzi scheme by Ambidant Marketing Pvt Ltd.

Based on a source report, the Lokayukta police on Tuesday raided former tourism minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy houses in Bengaluru and seven other locations in the state for accumulating disproportionate assets (DA).

Synonymous with the then rising BJP and the infamous illegal mining scam in Karnataka 15 years ago, Gali Janardhana Reddy on Sunday launched his own political outfit citing he was disgusted with what happened to him and the prevailing political situation in the country.

Son of a police constable, Gali Janardhana Reddy grew up in a middle-class home, but with dreams of making it big.

Aam Aadmi Party has alleged that Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha president and Gangavati candidate Gali Janardhana Reddy has not furnished full details of the cases registered against him in his poll affidavit.

The Karnataka government on Thursday authorised the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to attach 'excess properties' belonging to former minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy, his wife and companies owned by him.

A lower court judge arrested in a case related to cash-for-bail scam involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, has claimed that Reddy's relatives were ready to offer as much as Rs 100 crore to secure bail for him.

CBI investigations have revealed that Janardhana Reddy and his brothers owned six companies in foreign countries including Mauritius and Virgin Islands.

After G Janardhana Reddy, it's now the turn of another former Karnataka minister and Congress leader V Muniyappa to face the CBI probe into illegal mining.v

Continuing its raids in connection with the illegal mining scam, CBI today conducted searches at the residences of two aides of arrested former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy in Bellary district.

Former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy is likely to contest the Assembly polls due in May next year.

Special CBI court judge Naga Maruthi Sarma on Monday reserved his order on the bail plea of Karnataka mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy to Tuesday.

Mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy, now cooling his heels in the Chanchalguda jail for alleged irregularities in mining, was visited by his elder brother Gali Karunakar Reddy on Saturday.

The CBI on Tuesday informed the AP high court that three witnesses, who deposed against Gali Janardhana Reddy, the prime accused in the illegal mining case, were later threatened by him.

A taxi driver who allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday has left behind a note alleging that his employer, a Karnataka Administrative Service officer, helped Ballari mining czar G Janardhana Reddy launder Rs 100 crore of alleged black money for his daughter's recent lavish wedding.

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Day five in prison and Gali Janardhana Reddy has put aside his worries and joined in the festivities at the Central Jail, Chanchalguda.

On Monday, Bellary woke up to news perhaps unthinkable not so long ago. The man who put the mining town on the global map had just been arrested.