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Yeleru scam: revival of Somasekhara panel urged

Written By news on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 | 11/15/2011

HYDERABAD, MAY 23. The Congress MLA-elect and former Congress Legislature Party leader, P. Janardhan Reddy, who spearheaded the campaign against the Yeleru scam and the former Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, for his alleged involvement in the case, has sought the reinstatement of the Justice B.K. Somasekhara Commission to bring to book the culprits of one of the worst-ever scams in the history of Andhra Pradesh.
"Mr. Chandrababu Naidu himself, bowing to public pressure, had appointed the judicial commission to inquire into the Yeleru scam, but got it withdrawn abruptly fearing that his name would come out into the open," the Khairatabad MLA-elect alleged at a press conference here on Sunday.
Mr. Reddy, who fought a protracted legal battle on irregularities in payment of compensation in land acquisition matters in Yeleru of Visakhapatnam district, sought to know why the Telugu Desam Government had discontinued the Commission on August 4, 2001, that too with retrospective effect from March 1, 1999, when it had almost completed the inquiry and was all set to submit the report. Further, the State Government had also incurred a whopping Rs. 1-crore expenditure on the Commission.
"Why was the case not taken to its logical conclusion? It is evident that the impugned G.O. discontinuing the Commission was issued by the then State Government only to protect the real culprits," he pointed out, adding that it was not just political parties but the "popular perception was that Mr. Chandrababu Naidu and some of his Ministerial colleagues were involved in the scam."
Mr. Janardhan Reddy appealed to the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, to cancel the controversial G.O. issued by the previous regime and revive the Somasekhara Commission of Inquiry into the Yeleru scam to enable it complete the unfinished job and bring the real culprits to book.
The Commission was appointed in 1997, but the appointment was challenged by one of the accused in the scam in 1998. A Division Bench of the High Court held that the Commission was not validly constituted in accordance with the Commission of Inquiry Act. Mr. Reddy filed a civil appeal before the Supreme Court in 2001 even as the State Government discontinued the Commission with retrospective effect from March 1, 1999. A writ petition filed by Mr. Reddy on the matter was also dismissed in the High Court, which ordered that the Court cannot give directions for appointment of a Commission of Inquiry and it was the discretion of the Government. "The onus is on the present Government to undo the wrongs of the previous regime by restoring the Somasekhara Commission," Mr. Reddy added.

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