Hyderabad, March 18 -- The Telangana High Court dismissed a petition seeking permission to re-examine Bhaskar Rao, a former survey officer from the Singareni Collieries Corporate Survey Department, who was a witness in the Obulapuram illegal mining case.

The court stated that it could not permit such a request after a year had passed since his testimony and cross-examination were completed.

The petition was filed by BV Srinivas Reddy, the main accused in the OMC case, challenging the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court's decision to deny the request for re-examination.

Justice K Lakshman heard the petition, where the petitioner's lawyer argued that Bhaskar Rao had provided contradictory statements in another case related to Obu...