Disproportionate assets case | TDP demands action against Jagan Mohan Reddy

New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday closed in on YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, filing its first chargesheet against him and 12 others in an alleged disproportionate assets case. Sources said that the CBI is unlikely to arrest Jagan this week.

The 68-page chargesheet was filed in Hyderabad on Saturday. It also names suspended IAS officer and Jagan's auditor, BP Acharya.

The former Congress leader, however, hit back at the central probe agency, saying why no Congress leader was named in the chargesheet.

The CBI, meanwhile, also issued notices to eight ministers from YSR Reddy's Cabinet and 8 IAS officers asking why they should not be investigated in the case.

Jagan Reddy is the son of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YSR Reddy. His party issued a statement on Saturday, saying, "How can the CBI file a charge sheet when the investigation process is not complete? The Supreme Court has recently issued notices to the ministers, senior bureaucrats and CBI seeking explanation and even before giving a reply to the notice, the charge sheet is filed."

The Opposition TDP, meanwhile, has demanded that all ministers involved in the case be sacked.

"This is a collective responsibility... All those related to these ministers... why are they not taken into judicial custody...? Already some ministers have been issued notices... they are to give reply within one month... That is the stipulation... all the ministers must be suspended."