Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The CBI special court convicted a 73-year-old retired Vice President of IT appellate tribunal,his wife and nephew for amassing disproportionate wealth during his tenure at various metro cities including Bengaluru,Mumbai and New Delhi.
The 34th CBI Judge,H Mohan,convicted the trio sentenced them to undergo two years of Simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs.1.5 lakh in total .
The case was dated back to December 2014,when CBI filed a charge sheet before the court after a detailed investigations against GE Veerabhadrappa,his second wife Radha and his nephew Kotresh for amassing disproprotinate assets to their known source of income during Veerabhadrappa tenure in tribunal between January 2002 to July 2013 .
The probe revealed that during this period he had purchased 6.3 acres of agricultural land in Gunjur village near Varthur and site and a flats at JP Nagar.
He had also purchased a flat in Noida,three more flats in Nagashettyhalli in Bengaluru in his and his brother-in-law s name .
The probe also revealed that he has purchased a flat in Prestige Shantiniketan in Bengaluru during this period , a site in Anekal and another flat in Pune. He had also purchased a plot in Dharward in the name of Ms. Radha.
Apart from his immovable properties the CBI confiscated huge amount of cash deposits and fixed deposits from various bank accounts found in his house during the search and seizure .
An estimation by the CBI found that the total value of his assets estimated to be around Rs.3.71 crores where as his total income during the same period was Rs.2.47 crore only.
When confronted by both CBI and IT department during investigations,Veerabhadrappa did not give any satisfactory explanation following which the CBI booked him and his family members under DA case and filed the charge sheet .
Special Public Prosecutor,Shivananda Perla,argued the case on behalf of CBI.
The special court judge in his judgement said that the properties of Veerabhadrappa to the tune of Rs.1. 72 crores should be confiscated by the central government since it was proved that he has amassed the wealth by misusing his official power .
