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YSR’s Widow wants CBI to probe Chandrababu Naidu
- October 18, 2011
Y.S. Vijayalakshmi, wife of former chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, on Monday approached the AP High Court seeking a CBI probe into the wealth of Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu, which she said he had amassed illegally when he was Chief Minister.
Vijayalakshmi, the mother of Kadapa MP Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, alleged in her affidavit that Mr Naidu, who came from a lower middle class farmer’s family, had minted money by misusing his power as Chief Minister.
Several Telugu Desam leaders had moved the High Court seeking CBI probe into the assets of Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy. The court had clubbed these pleas with a taken-up petition of Congress MLA Dr P. Shankar Rao and ordered a CBI probe into his assets, which is going on.
The affidavit ran into 86 pages and Vijayalaks-hmi submitted material papers and documents totalling 2,300 pages in different volumes.
Stating that she was prepared to pay exemplary costs if her allegations were disproved, Vijayalakshmi said that Mr Naidu and his top aides had committed offences in violation of various laws including the Prevention of Corruption Act, the Indian Penal Code, the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, Foreign Exchange Mainte-nance Act, the Represen-tation of People Act, the AP Land Grabbing Act and Benami Transaction (Prohibition) Act.
As respondents to her plea she named Naidu, his wife Bhuvaneswari, son Lokesh, media baron Ch. Ramoji Rao, Ushodaya Enterprises Private Limi-ted, Heritage Foods (India) Limited.
Also named in the petition were Ahobila Rao alias Billy Rao of IMG Bharata, V. Nagaraja Naidu (a distant relative of Naidu), Yelamanchili Satyanarayana Chow-dhary alias Sujana Chow-dhary and Madhucon Sugar and Power Industries Limited owned by TD MP Nama Nageswara Rao.
