Ayyanna to meet Special Investigation Team

Visakhapatnam: Minister for Roads and Buildings Ch Ayyannapatrudu and BJP floor leader and Visakhapatnam North MLA P Vishnu Kumar Raju will be meeting the members of Special Investigation Team that is enquiring into the tampering of land documents. They will meet on July 18.

The SIT members sent letters to Opposition party leader YS Jagan, MP Vijaysai Reddy, Ministers Ganta Srinivasa Rao, Ch Ayyannapatrudu, P Vishnu Kumar Raju and other district MLAs.

Sources said only Ayyannapatrudu and Vishnu Kumar Raju will be meeting the SIT members and would be submitting some key documents. Prior to announcement of SIT, Ayyannapatrudu announced that an open inquiry would be held into the land scams and blamed his own party leaders for backing the grabbers who had come from outside the district.

On the other hand Vishnu Kumar Raju has been waging a war against the corrupt officials and was responsible for arrest of two tahsildars and one chief engineer. Raju earlier expressed his unhappiness over the scope of the SIT which was limited to an enquiry into the land tampering.

He wanted that enquiry should have included land pooling which was another scam pertaining to 400 acres of D patta lands in Pendurthy.

Meanwhile, the SIT team had taken custody of former tahsildar of Bhimili Majji Shankar Rao , who is the key accused in the tampering case. He was under judicial remand and brought to the city for questioning. However, the place of enquiry was not disclosed.