Lawyer Vikas Bansode had Z plus security

Hyderabad: After the Machilipatnam incident in which an IED was found outside the compound wall of his house, Vikas Bansode, an SC lawyer with high level political connections, is back in the news.

He was given Z plus security in Karnataka (Only Karnataka CM and Governor has Z plus) following the recommendation of CBI’s former Joint Director, V.V. Laxminarayana, who was the supervising officer for investigations into the  Obulapuram Mining Scam involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. The security threat perception of Vikas Bansode is a ‘puzzle’ to TS, AP and Karnataka cops. It was later scaled down to X-category and he moved to Banjara Hills. Vikas Bansode is married to the daughter of former Additional SP, G. Krishna Prasad. The lawyer regularly visits Manchilipatnam and participates in social programmes like health camps. Additional SP Krishna Prasad was shot dead by ISI linked terrorists in Hyderabad in 1992.

Vikas Bansode was an advisor to former Karnataka governor, H.R. Bhardwaj as well as to the Lokayukta SIT probing mining cases.

He was also advisor to TTD. In 2015 Telangana police asked Karnataka about the type of security he was given in Karnataka to which they replied he was given Z plus initially and that it was scaled down to X-category after the security review committee rejected the claim of a threat to his life.

Krishna district SP G. Vijay Kumar said, “We were not aware that he was coming to Machilipatnam. He was given Z plus in Karntaka and later he moved to Hyderabad. He is suspecting mining mafia involvement. But we are looking into all angles.”

Former CBI offical V.V. Lakshminarayana wrote three letters in 2012 that Gali Janardhan Reddy’s men  were planning to attack Bansode revenge.

The then Lokayukta police chief ADGP H S Sathyanarayana Rao and Enforcement Directorate Deputy Director, H P Sudham Das also wrote stating that the security threat is real.