CBI joint director V V Laxminarayana, on Tuesday, denied allegations that the agency was using 3rd degree methods to extract information from accused.
Talking to media persons after meeting Chief Secretary Pankaj Dwivedi at the state Secretariat, Laxminarayana said that certain accused persons have been leveling baseless charges against the CBI in court.
He said the CBI never uses 3rd degree methods during interrogation.
It may be mentioned here that Vijaya Raghavan, an accused in the Emaar case, had alleged that he was subjected to 3rd-degree methods by the CBI.
Regarding senior IAS officer B P Acharya, who was
arrested in the Emaar scam on Monday, the CBI Joint Director said that the charge-sheet against him would be filed at a later stage depending on the progress of the investigation.
He also said that the CBI was waiting for certain necessary approvals to file a charge-sheet against IAS officer Y Srilakshmi, in the Obulapuram Mining Corporation case.
Laxminarayana said that the CBI was not targeting any particular individual or group, and that all the arrests were being made based on the progress of the investigation.
When asked about the possibility of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's arrest, he said that it would depend on the progress of investigation. However, he maintained that the CBI would continue its investigations and arrests, irrespective of the status of the accused.
He said that he has briefed the Chief Secretary about the status of investigations into various cases.
The CBI joint director also appealed to the media not to publish stories based on mere speculations, and to cross-check facts with CBI officials. (INN)