Gali has bandicoots for company
HYDERABAD: Perhaps Gali Janardhan Reddy might have thought that coming out of the Chanchalguda central prison to the CBI custody would ensure a slightly better treatment to him.
Well, though he did have biryani, butter chicken and butter nan for lunch in the CBI custody, he would have never imagined that he would have bandicoots for company in the night!
Both Gali Janardhan Reddy and his brother-in-law B Srinivas Reddy have been lodged at the Central Crime Station (CCS) lockup which is 'famous' for bandicoots paying a visit now and then.
Sources told that in the absence of a cell in the CBI office at Koti, CBI joint director VV Lakshminarayana has decided to keep the duo in the CCS lockup. On Tuesday night, Reddys got a taste of the CCS lockup.
After being questioned at the CBI office, both Janardhan Reddy and Srinivas Reddy were driven to the CCS where they were put in separate cells. Sources said the dingy cell has a hole dug up in one corner to answer the call of nature. In another corner was a pot of water.
Besides bandicoots, mosquitoes also make life miserable for those lodged in the lockup. Both Janardhan Reddy and Srinivas Reddy will have to spend the next six nights in the CCS lockup and they will not be provided any bedsheet or matress, sources said.
Further, sources said that whoever has been lodged in the CCS lockup, will have to clean the premises. The Reddy duo have been lodged in separate lockups to prevent them from coming up with a common 'strategy' on how to answer the CBI queries.
Security for the duo is another factor that made the CBI choose the CCS lockup to keep them. Meanwhile, the CBI has prepared a lengthy questionnaire to grill the Reddy duo. Prominent among the questions that have been put to them so far is the role of politicians and bureaucrats in their activities.
It is learnt that Janardhan Reddy has been reportedly evading replies to many queries. His standard reply for most of the queries has been, 'We have done no wrong.'
News Posted: 15 September, 2011
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