In fresh trouble for YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, the CBI today filed an FIR against him in Andhra Pradesh in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
The agency also filed a petition in a special court in Hyderabad seeking its permission to conduct searches at his premises.
The search operations are expected soon and special teams have been formed, CBI sources told PTI in Hyderabad.
The CBI action came even as the former Congress leader and son of late Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy moved the Supreme Court challenging the Andhra Pradesh High Court's order directing CBI to have a thorough inquiry against him for his alleged disproportionate assets.
Reddy contended that the August 10 order of the high court was not a reasoned decision.
The high court, in its order, had directed CBI to take their probe into the case to its logical end and ordered a thorough inquiry by CBI into the alleged disproportionate assets of Jagan after registering a criminal case.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Nissar Ahmad Kakru and Justice Vilas Afzalpurkar had also asked the investigating agency to inquire into the alleged irregularities of land allotment to Emaar by the then Rajasekhara Reddy government and dilution of the stake of Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructural Corporation (APIIC) in joint venture with Emaar for the development of township on the city outskirts.
State Handlooms and Textile Minister P Shankar Rao, three members of main opposition TDP, and a Kadapa-based lawyer had filed a petition in the court seeing a CBI inquiry into the companies that had invested in Jagan's businesses to allegedly win favours in the form of land allotments and mining leases from the then government led by Jagan's father YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
