HYDERABAD: Six days after his arrest, former minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao was on Wednesday shifted to Chanchalguda Central Prison after the end of his five-day CBI custody.Venkata Ramana is Qaidi no 6113 in the Chanchalguda prison. The former minister was sent to judicial remand till June 7 even as his counsel moved a petition seeking bail on health grounds.Venkata Ramana also argued that all his acts had the approval of the then chief minister (Y S Rajasekhara Reddy) and the cabinet.Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao was arrested on May 24 in connection with the disproportionate assets case involving YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.Incidentally, Jagan Mohan Reddy is also lodged in the same prison after he was arrested in the case when Venkata Ramana was in CBI custody.With the completion of the custody period, the former minister was produced before the special court for CBI cases on Wednesday.Principal special judge A Pullaiah enquired about the former minister’s health to which the latter replied in negative.The judge also asked whether he was put to any inconvenience to which Venkata Ramana replied in the negative. He was later remanded to judicial custody and was granted special status under AP Prison Rules.Meanwhile, Ramana’s counsel moved a bail petition in the court.In his bail plea, Mopidevi said he was suffering from high BP and other ailments. He said he had a brain stroke in 2006, for which he was hospitalised and his continuation in remand will affect his health.Mopidevi’s counsel submitted that his client was falsely implicated in the case and said the entire processing of files was done in routine course.Ramana said there should not be any apprehension that grant of bail will adversely affect the investigation into the case and added that he would assist the CBI in its probe.The matter was posted to Thursday for CBI’s counter.
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