Telangana HC suspends Gali Janardhan Reddy’s conviction, jail term in OMC illegal mining case

Gali Janardhan Reddy. File
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Telangana Excessive Court docket on Wednesday (June 11, 2025) suspended the sentence of seven-year imprisonment awarded to Gali Janardhan Reddy by CBI particular court docket – which held him responsible of unlawful mining within the Obulapuram Mining Firm case. 

Three different convicts, V. Dasari Raj Gopal, B.V. Sreenivasa Reddy and Ok. Mehfuz Ali Khan, of the identical case have been granted bail by the choose. The CBI particular court docket in Hyderabad on Might 6 [2025] pronounced judgement within the legal case registered by the CBI over allegations that OMC indulged in unlawful mining past the lands leased out by the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh authorities to it. 

The judgement was introduced 16 years after issuing the FIR. The particular court docket held Janardhan Reddy and three others responsible and sentenced them to bear seven-year imprisonment. Difficult this conviction, the quartet approached the Excessive Court docket. 

Passing the interim orders in a legal attraction filed by Janardhan Reddy questioning CBI court docket judgement — following which he was lodged in jail — Justice Ok. Lakshman directed the petitioner to deposit ₹10 lakh surety. The choose mentioned that the petitioner mustn’t intervene with the judicial course of nor depart the nation.