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The Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has made another arrest in the cash-for-bail scandal involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy.
Guduru Dasaratharami Reddy,a businessman who is one of the accused in the case pertaining to bribing of CBI judge Pattabhirama Rao to get bail for Janardhana Reddy in the Obulapuram Mining Company scam,was arrested on Saturday night.
Dasaratharami,a relative of mining baron Janardhana Reddy,was produced before the special ACB court on Sunday,which remanded him in judicial custody till August 3.
With this,nine persons are now in jail in connection with the scandal,including judge Pattabhirama Rao (now suspended),two other lower court judges and retired judge T V Chalapathi Rao. Pattabhirama Rao,additional special judge for CBI court,had granted bail to Janardhana Reddy while rejecting the bail plea of suspended IAS officer Y Srilakshmi in the same case.
Amid allegations of bribery against Pattabhirama Rao,the Andhra Pradesh High Court suspended him on May 31.
