Satyam scam: Raju's judicial remand extended

A local court here today extended the judicial remand of the accused in Satyam scam including IT firm's disgraced founder, B Ramalinga Raju.

The XIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate extended the judicial remand of all the ten accused of multi-crore Satyam scam to till February 3.

As the advocates of the Nampally criminal court boycotted court proceeding in support of Telangana bandh and closed the entrance, the accused could not be produced before the magistrate.

They were made to sit in the police van itself for over three hours after they were brought from the Chanchalguda jail.

Later, in view of the security of the accused, the magistrate extended the judicial remand till February 3 and also adjourned the framing of charges case to same day.

Eight accused including two former auditors of Price Waterhouse were brought from the jail while Satyam's former chairman B Ramalinga Raju is undergoing treatment at NIMS hospital here for his hapatitis-C ailment.

Another accused Satyanarayan Raju, who is on anticipatory bail was also present in the court premises.