Thursday, January 29, 2009

रामालिंगा राजू की जमानत मंजूर नही हुई - जनवरी 29, 2009

हिन्दी रूपांतरण:

एक स्थानीय अदालत ने सत्यम कम्प्यूटर्स सर्विसेज के संस्थापक और पूर्व चेयरमैन बी.रामलिंगा राजू, उनके भाई बी.रामा राजू और पूर्व वित्त अधिकारी वदलामणि श्रीनिवास की जमानत याचिका बुधवार को खारिज कर दी।

राजू के वकील एस.भरत कुमार ने कहा कि उनके मुवक्किल के पास अभी इसी न्यायालय में या फिर उच्च न्यायालय में अपील करने का विकल्प बाकी है। इस संबंध में दो दिनों में फैसला कर लिया जाएगा।

सत्यम कम्प्यूटर्स में करीब 70 अरब रुपए के घोटाले के बाद रामालिंगा राजू, रामा राजू और वदलामणि श्रीनिवास इन दिनों जेल में हैं। उल्लेखनीय है कि तीनों की न्यायिक हिरासत 31 जनवरी को समाप्त हो रही है।

मुख्य महानगर दंडाधिकारी डी.रामाकृष्णा ने राजू परिवार द्वारा संचालित एसआरएसआर एडवायजरी सर्विसेस के पूर्व महाप्रबंधक गोपालकृष्ण राजू की पुलिस हिरासत के लिए दायर पुलिस की याचिका पर गुरुवार तक के लिए अपना आदेश सुरक्षित रख लिया। न्यायाधीश रामाकृष्णा, गुरुवार को गोपालकृष्ण राजू की जमानत याचिका पर फैसला सुनाएंगे।

English Translation:

In a setback to Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju, his brother and former MD Rama Raju and former chief financial officer of the IT major Vadlamani Srinivas, the sixth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate dismissed their bail applications here on Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters, Ramalinga Raju’s counsel Bharat Kumar said his client would file either a review petition in the same court or go in for an appeal in a higher court. He said a decision in this regard would be taken in a couple of days.

Meanwhile in a related development, Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who has come under fire from the Opposition for allegedly trying to shield Raju and his men, sent a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stating that he would welcome a CBI probe into the Satyam scam if the Centre deemed it fit.

In his two-page letter, Rajasekhara Reddy strongly denied reports that the State CID was not cooperating with Central agencies and took pains to explain how forthcoming the sleuths had been, in helping them probe the case.

The Chief Minister urged the Prime Minister to take steps to put in place a mechanism so that Central agencies like Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) could be in touch with the State CID on a regular basis for sharing information and facilitating a thorough inquiry into the scam. “I want the guilty to be brought to book,” he asserted.

He dismissed allegations levelled by the Opposition parties that the State Government had been trying hard to dilute the case as “attempts to gain political mileage in an election year.” In the same breath, he sought to distance his government from the Maytas firms Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties both promoted by Ramalinga Raju’s family.

Maytas Infra had been awarded a number of prestigious projects, including the Metro Rail, prompting the Opposition to charge that the gover nment had favoured it. Rajasekhara Reddy explained, “Maytas Infra, as part of several consortia, had won the State projects but the process was through competitive bidding.” The Chief Minister went on to say that the CID had also been directed to probe possible links between Maytas firms and Satyam.

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