HYDERABAD: The three-day-long searches at more than 50 premises, including those of residences, offices and firms across the city and the country left the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with more than one lakh pages of documents which they have to scrutinise in the next couple of days. Though the CBI did not continue with their searches on Sunday, they are likely to continue them during the next three days.The CBI sleuths are concentrating more on the bank documents that they have seized during the searches for evidence of transfer of money from various companies into the businesses of YSR Congress Party MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.According to sources, CBI teams have searched 53 premises till Saturday including those of the prime accused in the two cases that it is investigating - the Emaar case and the Jagan assets case, IAS officer B P Acharya and Jagan respectively. “Several documents amounting to a voluminous pages of more than one lakh have been seized from these places and they are being scrutinised at the CBI's camp office, Dilkusha Guest House. Special teams of experts in financial matters are poring over the seized documents,'' the sources said.By Saturday night, the documents seized from various firms, alleged to be floated only with the purpose of transferring money into Jagan's businesses, across the country have reached the CBI's camp office and the process of scrutinising them was taken up immediately. Searches were conducted in Rajkot, Kolkata, Bangalore and other places in the past three days.The CBI is supposed to submit a report on the searches and seizures it had conducted to the court on Wednesday and they are likely to conduct searches at a few more places in the next three days. ``A report has to be submitted by Wednesday and we are on the job of preparing it. Based on the report, we can seek the court permission for more searches or seizures as part of further investigation,'' officials said.“Monday being a holiday on account of Krishnashtami, the searches may not continue on a large scale. But there are a few more places and residences of individuals which are yet to be searched and they would be covered,'' the sources said. Simultaneously, forensic experts are verifying the hard discs recovered from some of the places. Meanwhile, the CBI sleuths are focusing on scrutinising bank records of the firms to verify the flow of funds into Jagan's businesses. The agency will be taking the help of banks, including some corporate banks, to track the flow of funds.
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