CBI Gives Clean Chit to Minister Kakani in Missing Documents from Nellore Court Case

Vijayawada: The probe agency Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday gave a clean chit to Agriculture Minister and Sarvepalli MLA Kakani Govardhan Reddy in a case relating to the missing files from a courtroom in Nellore. The probe agency recently filed a chargesheet in the case in which it said Kakani had no role in the case of missing documents at the court complex. 

Based on a complaint lodged by the staff of the IV Additional Judicial Magistrate Court, the Nellore police had registered a case on April 14, 2022 and launched a probe into the theft of crucial documents. The complainant had said that the main door locks of the court were found broken and a bag containing the properties relating to a 2016 was missing. Following a direction from the Andhra Pradesh High Court, the central agency took over the investigation from the Chinna Bazar police station in the case. 
 
After conducting an investigation into the files missing case for over a year, the CBI had filed a 403-page chargesheet and interrogated 88 witnesses. The central agency also rejected the allegations of TDP leader Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy and contended that the minister Kakakani had no connection with the accused. During the preliminary stage of investigations, the Nellore police had detained two suspects Syed Hayath and Shaik Khaja Rasool and recovered  a tablet, laptop and four mobile phones from their possession. 

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