Bengaluru: Mining baron and former BJP minister G Janardhan Reddy was granted bail by the Lokayukta Special Court on Monday in connection with an illegal mining case .
Justice V.G. Bopaiah accepted the bail plea on the condition that Reddy would give two sureties and a bond for Rs. 5 lakh.
The court last week sent Reddy to judicial custody till December 3, when he was produced before it by the Special Investigation Team (SIT).
Reddy was arrested on November 20 under the Provisions of Indian Penal Code, Prevention of Corruption Act of 1988 and the Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Act of 1957.
A CBI team in 2011 had arrested the former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy in Bellary, on charges of illegal mining operations in the Reddys’ Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) in Andhra Pradesh. He had secured anticipatory bail in 13 cases.
After spending three years and four months in Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Prison, Reddy was granted conditional bail by the Supreme Court in January 2015.
