Three-days police custody for Miyapur scam suspects
The suspects were lodged at the Chanchalguda jail on judicial remand.
Hyderabad: A local court on Wednesday granted the police request for custody of the Miyapur land scam suspects for three days. Cyberabad police had taken Kukatpally sub registrar Srinivas Rao, Gold Stone director P.V.S. Sharma and P.S. Parthasarathy into custody in connection with the probe. The suspects were lodged at the Chanchalguda jail on judicial remand.
“We had filed a petition in court seeking their custody. The court gave us three days to grill them. The investigating officials will question them and collect evidence in these three days,” said Madhapur DCP Vishwa Prasad. Earlier, the court had rejected the custody plea of the lice. In the fresh petition, the police requested 14 days custody. However, the court granted only three days. In the order, the court said the trio should be sent back after medical examination. Meanwhile, the police is yet to file charges against P.S. Prasad, the businessman, who is suspected to have been pulling strings behind the curtain. Officials say that questioning the trio and collecting more evidence might give them leads to Prasad. As per the remand report filed by Cyberabad police in court, businessman P.S. Prasad’s wife Indrani Prasad and daughter Mahitha Caddel were named in the FIR as fifth and sixth accused.
Probe officials said both the women were absconding and teams have been dispatched to arrest them. “They are nowhere to be seen in Hyderabad. We mentioned them as absconding in the report,” said an official from Cyberabad.
HC asks for probe details:
The Hyderabad HC on Wednesday asked the Cyberabad police to furnish details of the investigation into the cases registered regarding the Miyapur land registration scam. Justice U. Durga Prasad Rao was dealing with the bail petitions of P.S. Partha Sarathi, director of Trinity Infra Ventures Ltd and P.V.S. Sharma, director of Suvishal Power Generation Ltd, who are accused in the scam.
The Kukatpally police registered a case against the petitioners on May 27 regarding the alleged illegal registration of lands. The police later registered another case on May 30 against the petitioner regarding the same offence. Both the petitioners moved the High Court challenging the rejection of their bail applications by the trial court in Cyberabad.
Opposing the bail applications additional public prosecutor D. Rami Reddy submitted that it was a case where a detailed investigation had to be carried out to ascertain facts, and that releasing the petitioners on bail at this stage would hamper the probe. He urged the court to grant some time to place details of the investigation. The judge posted the case to June 13 for further hearing.