Cash for bail: Karnataka MLA held by Andhra ACB

Anti-Corruption Bureau officials

of Andhra Pradesh today held Karnataka legislator T H Suresh

Babu here in connection with the cash-for-bail case involving

former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan

Reddy.Kampli MLA from Karnataka T H Suresh Babu was picked

up by the ACB officials and questioned in the case, a top ACB

official said this evening without elaborating.The ACB, probing the cash-for-bail case, on July 24 had

served notices to Suresh Babu and Bellary (Urban) MLA Gali

Somashekhar Reddy, brother of Gali Janardhan Reddy asking them

to appear before it in connection with the investigation.The investigating agency has so far arrested nine persons

including three serving judges and a retired judge in

connection with the case.CBI's T Pattabhirama Rao, who had granted bail to

Janardhan Reddy on May 31, was among the three serving judges

arrested by the ACB.Somashekhar, Suresh Babu and Janardhan Reddy's relative

Dasaratha Ram Reddy (who has already been arrested by ACB)

have been accused of allegedly bribing Pattabhirama Rao in

granting bail to Janardhan Reddy.The case was first cracked by CBI after Pattabhirama Rao,

who was additional special judge for CBI court, granted bail

to Janardhan Reddy while rejecting the bail plea of suspended

IAS officer Y Srilakshmi in connection with the Obulapuram

Mining Corporation scam.