Bengaluru, May 6 -- A CBI court here on Tuesday sentenced former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy and three others to seven years of rigorous imprisonment in the long-pending Obulapuram illegal mining case.
Delivering its verdict nearly 14 years after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed the chargesheet, the Principal Special Judge for CBI cases, T Raghu Ram, held Reddy, accused number two, guilty of tampering with mining lease boundary markers and conducting illegal mining operations in the Ballari Reserve Forest region straddling the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border.
Along with Reddy, the court convicted Srinivas Reddy (A1), Managing Director of Obulapuram Mining Company and Reddy's brother-in-law; VD R...