Hearing on CBI plea to cancel Jagan's bail adjourned

A special court on Friday adjourned to April 21 the hearing on a CBI plea to cancel the bail of YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy in an illegal assets case for allegedly violating bail condition.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on March 28 moved the petition in the CBI special court for bail cancellation on the ground that Jagan is trying to influence witnesses.

The agency cited an interview given by former Chief Secretary of undivided Andhra Pradesh, Ramakanth Reddy, to 'Sakshi', a Telugu daily, and news channel owned by Jagan.

Jagan's counsel filed a counter-affidavit as directed by the court on the previous hearing.

Jagan, currently Leader of Opposition in Andhra Pradesh assembly, was arrested by the CBI in May 2012. He spent 16 months in jail before he was granted bail in September 2013.

The CBI has so far filed 11 charge sheets in the case against Jagan, his aides, former state ministers, IAS officers, corporate entities and businessmen.

The case relates to alleged investments made by private firms and individual investors in Jagan's companies in return for favours they received when his father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was Chief Minister between 2004-09.

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