Hyderabad, May 16 -- A special CBI court in Hyderabad has rejected a petition filed by Gali Janardhan Reddy, the former Karnataka minister and BJP leader convicted in the Obulapuram illegal mining case, seeking to be treated as a special category prisoner during his sentence.

Reddy, who is currently serving a seven-year jail term in Chanchalguda prison, had requested the court to issue directions for special facilities under a privileged prisoner category.

However, the CBI court dismissed his petition on Thursday, stating that with the verdict already delivered in the case, there were no pending matters before the court to warrant such consideration, and therefore, the petition could not be entertained.

Reddy, along with three others, ...