Janardhana Reddy's 'Passport' to Further Trouble Revealed
Daijiworld Media Network
Hyderabad, Oct 12: A leading Hyderabad-based English weekly has claimed that according to the CBI sources, former Karnataka tourism minister and BJP leader Janardhana Reddy possesses not one but two passports.
The first passport was obtained in the year 2003 from Bangalore regional passport office and other from Trichy in Tamilnadu, under a different name.
The newspaper claims that sources close to CBI have revealed this fact.
He applied for the second passport soon after the CBI confiscated his first passport during its renewed investigation into the illegal mining scam as per the orders of Andhra Pradesh high court, which permitted it to go ahead with the probe in December 2010, sources said.
The newspaper further quotes that Reddy had toyed with the idea of fleeing to an island he bought in 2009 near Florida in the United States.
The former minister, who is under arrest on charges of illegal mining, could face prosecution for possession of two passports. Reddy is currently lodged in an Andhra jail, where he has been remanded in judicial custody till October 17.