HYDERABAD: Home minister Sabita Indra Reddy is bracing up for a legal battle with her cabinet colleague textile minister P Shankar Rao after the High Court took up his allegations that she, her son and her brother received bribes for effecting transfers of DSPs.“I will definitely fight it out in court. I will fight it 100 per cent since I have done no wrong. I had a clean record when I was mines and geology minister. I have no fear of anyone,” she told The New Indian Express. She said she is being targeted by ‘some forces’ but would not say who they are.With the High Court commenting that the charges against her were fit for a CBI investigation, there is a possibility that in the event of such an inquiry being ordered against her, Sabita’s role as mines minister in granting mining leases during 2004-09 might duly come under the scanner.The home minister, after news of the High Court’s observations broke out on Tuesday, met the chief minister and reportedly told him that she had done no wrong and that all transfers of DSPs were done in accordance with the rules in force. She is understood to have told him that at no stage had she, her son or her brother interfered in the transfer of DSPs.According to sources close to Sabita Reddy, she is very much upset with Shankar Rao dragging her family members into allegations that had no substance at all. This is the second case in which Shankar Rao’s allegations were suo motu taken up as a petition by the High Court, the first being the wealth case against Jagan Mohan Reddy.
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