Central Bureau of Intelligence sleuths on Tuesday questioned Satyam founder and former chairman B Ramalinga Raju over the multi-crore accounting fraud in the company he had founded.
Raju, the prime accused in the Satyam fraud case, reached the CBI office at around 9:45 AM without his lawyers. He was questioned till 12:15 PM and then allowed to leave.
The CBI had on Monday summoned Raju through a notice for for further questioning into the 2008 scam.
According to sources, the CBI grilled Raju over the alleged fund diversion from Satyam Computers to some foreign countries. The CBI has sent Letters Rogatory to these unnamed foreign countries earlier and had received replies about a fortnight ago.
CBI sources say that one more case could be lodged against Raju if his involvement in the fund diversion is proved.
Raju was discharged from the NIMS hospital here last week where he was undergoing treatment for Hepatitis-C and heart problems since September.

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Raju faces CBI questioners alone

Doubts are being raised over the gunning down of a notorious thief in a pre-dawn encounter at Peddapuli &nbsp;Paka village, Penamaluru mandal in Krishna district.
According to Penamaluru Inspector Shivaji, Adapa Venkanna was gunned down in retaliatory fire after he opened fire at a police party conducting frisking operations in view of a visit by Chief Minister K Rosaiah to the district later in the day, while his widow claims that the thief was gunned down after policemen took away around Rs 10 lakh he had with him at the time.
Mr Shivaji told INN that a police team, led by East Zone ACP Nagaraj Kumar had sighted the Venkanna and another unidentified person around 3 AM. According to the Inspector, Venkanna opened fire at the police team when they tried to frisk him.
The police immediately opened fire in retaliation, in which the thief was killed while his accomplice managed to escape under the cover of darkness.
Police say that Venkanna was a notorious thief, and had over 60 cases pending against him at Hyderabad, Tirupati, Nellore, Vijayawada, Vizianagaram and Guntur. He was a native of Rajahmundry in East Godavari district, but was a resident of Mangalgiri in Guntur district.
Meanwhile, Venkanna&rsquo;s wife Mahalakshmi charged the police of conducting a fake encounter and claimed that there was no way her husband could have possessed a gun. She added that Venkanna had left his home on Monday night with Rs 10 lakh in cash. Mahalakshmi added that Venkanna had told her that he had decided to turn over a new leaf and become an approver in the many cases.
Mahalakshmi added that Venkanna had told her that the Rs 10 lakh was meant for bribing police personnel to lift the pending cases against him. She announced that she would lodge a complaint against the police department with the concerned authorities.
Police on the other hand claim that they found empty liquor bottle, packets of some snacks, a low-calibre pistol, some money and a cell phone from the site of the encounter.
A case has been registered under section 307 and 353 IPC and further investigations are on.

Notorious thief gunned down, wife terms encounter as fake

Exhorting journalists to live up to their responsibilities as guides of society, Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Monday said that the present trend of neglecting fact in the interest of speed will have an adverse effect on the media in the longer term.
Mr Rosaiah was speaking at a seminar on &lsquo;Protection of Media Values&rsquo; organised by the Andhra Pradesh Union Of Working Journalists (APUWJ) at Madupu Chandraiah Hall where he advised the scribes to be cautious over not getting carried away by the need for urgency and sending the news to scroll in the news channels without proper verification.
The Chief Minister regretted that values were on a downward spiral in all professions, and exhorted journalists to safeguard these values, so that the entire society gets benefited.
He recalled the contribution of eminent journalists like late CY Chintamani, Khasa Subbarao, Kotamraju Rama Rao, Kundurthi, Chalapathi Rao and others to the nation.
Mr Rosaiah also assured that he would examine the demands of the journalists and try to solve them after journalists submitted a memorandum to him over their long-pending demands.
Revealing that the government was spending Rs 1960 on every journalist on Mediclaim scheme, &nbsp;he said that the number of beneficiaries &nbsp;has increased to 11,200 from the 8,864 last year.
Responding to complaints in the issuing of the &lsquo;Arogya Bima cards&rsquo; for eligible journalists, he said that these would be given through the &lsquo;Adhaar&rsquo;, the unique identity number programme initiated by the Centre. He added that till date, approximately 800 forms for Health card were issued.
Mr Rosaiah also condemned attacks on journalists and said that the process of setting up Committees to look into the issue would be speeded up.
Responding to the house plots for journalist, Mr Rosaiah said that this was an issue which would be looked into and his government would try its best to solve the Court cases on &nbsp;the land issue.
The journalists union leaders had earlier submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister with six main demands. These demands were that the provisions of the Working Journalists Act, which provide for job security to the working journalists should be strictly implemented; The Working Journalists Act should be amended to bring the electronic media journalists under its purview; Corpus of the Journalists Welfare Fund should be raised to Rs 10 crore; pension facility to all journalists; Professional Committees, including State Accreditation Committee, Journalists Welfare Committee and High Power Committee should be reconstituted as some of these bodies&rsquo; terms had expired and these Panels should be empowered to look into attacks on journalists, and guidelines for house sites allotment to working journalists in Hyderabad and all districts.

Caution before speed: CM advises scribes

Ponnuru Court on Monday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Nellore Traffic Sub-Inspector Ranganath Goud over the allegations made by Razia Sultana.
The Court issued the warrant after Ranganath Goud failed to present himself before it. According to the court, Ranganath has been failed to appear before the Court since the past 8 weeks.
The court ordered that the sub-inspector be arrested and produced before it by October 12.
Ranganath Goud had earlier been suspended and then reinstated after a woman, Razia Sultana had alleged that he had entered into physical relationship with her after promising to marry her.
She had also undertaken a fast-unto-death but called it off after being assured by the authorities that justice would be done to her.
Police had registered a case against the SI under Sections 376 (Sexual Assault), 417 (Cheating) and 506 of IPC (Criminal Intimidation).

Raju faces CBI questioners alone

Notorious thief gunned down, wife terms encounter as fake

Notorious thief gunned down, wife terms encounter as fake

Notorious thief gunned down, wife terms encounter as fake

Notorious thief gunned down, wife terms encounter as fake

Caution before speed: CM advises scribes

Caution before speed: CM advises scribes

Caution before speed: CM advises scribes

Caution before speed: CM advises scribes

Non-bailable warrant against SI Ranganath Goud

Non-bailable warrant against SI Ranganath Goud

Non-bailable warrant against SI Ranganath Goud