A CBI court today extended toFebruary 16, the judicial custody of mining baron and formerminister G Janardhana Reddy and four others arrested in theillegal mining case of Associated Mining Corporation owned byhim.
CBI court judge Shreeshananda extended the judicialcustody of the accused.
Reddy and his close aide Mehfuz Ali Khan were producedbefore the court through video conferencing from Chanchalgudajail in Hyderabad where they have been lodged after theirarrest in connection with the Obulapuram Mining Company case.
However, the other three were produced through videoconferencing from Parappana Agrahara jail on the cityoutskirts.
The bail pleas of all the five accused had been rejectedby the CBI court. Reddy subsequently moved the High Court forbail but his plea was rejected.
The bail pleas of Khan, the then Deputy Conservator ofForests, Bellary district, S Muthaiah and the then DirectorMines and Geology S P Raju and another person had already beenrejected by the High Court.