NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court today granted bail to mining baron and former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, who is an accused in the illegal mining scam case involving his Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC).
A division bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justices A K Sikri and Arun Mishra granted bail to Reddy, who is facing several criminal cases and is now lodged in a jail in Andhra Pradesh.
The top court had earlier said Reddy’s bail plea would be considered if the trial in the case was not completed expeditiously.
Reddy had moved the apex court in 2013 challenging the High Court’s decision, which had rejected his bail petition. Janardhan Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy, Managing Director of OMC, were arrested by the CBI, on September 5, 2011 from Bellary in adjoining Karnataka and brought to Hyderabad.
Both were earlier denied bail by various courts, including the apex court, several times.
In the OMC case, the company is accused of changing mining lease boundary markings and indulging in illegal mining in the Bellary Reserve Forest area, spread over Bellary in Karnataka and Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh.
(AGENCIES)
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