Conspiracy angle being diverted to save CBI official: YSRC

Reiterating that an inquiry should be ordered by a sitting Supreme Court judge to probe into the conspiracy to physically harm Ys Jaganmohan Reddy, YSRCP has said some vested interests and a section of media has been actively involved in diverting the issue through malicious propaganda.

"Our pointed question is if a CBI official can talk to a judge and other persons while the investigations is in process but the issue is being diverted by bringing in freedom of press and the avocation of an individual in to picture," party spokesperson Gattu Ramachandra Rao told reporters here on Saturday.

Journalists speaking to CBI was never been an objection from our side, we have been contending that CBI investigation has been moving on the wrong track and the Joint Director has been very partisan and was not adhering to CBI manual.

"He was talking to a select few and information was being passed as inquiry details were being published in a section of media which is now trying to save the Joint Director by bringing the issue of an individual and tagging human relations after whipping up passions of journalists," he said.

We firmly believe that the sequence of events, right from the undemocratic arrest, to the bringing of Ys Jaganmohan Reddy in an ordinary police van to court, to the black out at Chancalguda jail as part of the conspiracy to harm or eliminate him and the newly elected MLAs sat on a dharna demanding a high level probe into the issue, he said.

CBI manual clearly points out that it cannot speak to any judge or media while the investigation process is in progress and the telephone numbers we released were those who received calls or messages from the Joint Director VV Lakshminaryana and we take strong objection to the officer talking to select media persons.

We have given the telephone number of a woman who received most number of calls and who was also in touch with Radha Krishna of Andhra Jyothy newspaper. Our focus was only on the number and not on the person. We fail to understand why Mr. Radha Krishna is enthusiastic to cover-up CBI JD VV Lakshminarayana.

"Between September and December 2011 there was a barrage of calls between the woman and the CBI Joint Director. The cover up bid about the lady's avocation with Lead India is clearly a deviation and the activity began much later," he said. This was what we have been questioning and serious efforts are being made to divert the main issue and save the Joint Director who did not follow the CBI manual during the investigation and while dealing with the Press," he said.

We will take up the matter legally and bring the issue to the notice of high offices including Central Vigilance Commission, he said.