Chennai: The XI additional special judge for CBI cases K.Venkatasamy has directed the CBI and enforcement directorate officials to file the vital information obtained from sand mining baron J. Sekhar Reddy, Premkumar and Srinivasulu in the illegal new currency exchange scam, before the court on January 10.
Meanwhile, the CBI also included Kolkata-based businessman Parasmal Lodha, 60, accused of assisting J. Shekar Reddy in the scam and included him as the sixth accused in the case besides Shekar Reddy, V. Srinivasalu, Dindigul Rathinam, Muthupettai Ramachandran and auditor Premkumar.
The CBI accused them in illegal conversion of new currencies worth Rs 34 crore. Lodha was arrested by Enforcement Directorate in Mumbai airport on December 2 and escorted him to Chennai from New Delhi on Thursday. The court sent him to judicial custody for 10 days. The court has adjourned the petition for further hearing to January 10.
