Bangalore: The CBI has arrested another MLA of the jailed G Janardhan Reddy group in Karnataka in the Belekeri illegal iron ore export case. The MLA, Suresh Babu of the BSR Congress party, is also a nephew of infamous Reddys' close aide B Sriramulu. He represents Kampli Assembly segment in Bellary district.
Babu has been arrested in the case relating to the disappearance of iron ore worth several hundreds crores that was being illegally exported from the Belekeri port in Uttara Kannada district. The ore had been seized just before export by a Lokayukta team in 2010.
Babu has earlier been indicted by the CBI in the cash-for-bail case in Hyderabad, too, where he allegedly tried to bribe a judge to secure bail for Janardhan Reddy. Reddy, who was arrested in 2011, has been in jail in similar cases of illegal mining in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
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