Supreme Court on Monday served notices on senior IAS officer in Andhra Pradesh Adityanath Das in connection with an Enforcement Directorate case involving YSR Congress party president and present chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Das is presently special chief secretary (irrigation) and has played a major role in reverse tendering of the Polavaram project works.
Das is one of the senior IAS officers who were booked in these quid pro quo cases in the undivided Andhra Pradesh.
The ED has alleged that Das, who was principal secretary in the irrigation department during Y S Rajasekhar Reddy government, had helped India Cements by giving additional water to the firm, while ignoring similar requests of other cement companies.
It is alleged that India Cements had reciprocated Das' favour by investing in Jagan's business empire.
The Hyderabad High Court in February 2018 had dropped the cases against the officer as the issues were cleared by the chief engineer first and the irrigation minister later. The High Court agreed with the arguments of the counsel for Das and dismissed the case giving him relief.
However, as the ED approached the Supreme Court, which issued notices to Das on Monday.
The ED and the CBI treated these cases under money laundering act and booked Jagan Reddy in disproportionate assets case. He was later sent to jail and released after 16 months.
Senior IAS officer Srilakshmi was jailed for several months in these cases, while other officers like B P Acharya and Adityanath Das were given relief by the High Court in the past.
Senior bureaucrats, K Rathna Prabha, Manmohan Singh, B Sam Bob, M Samuel, C V S K Sarma and S V Prasad were accused in this case, besides Srilakshmi, Adityanath Das and Acharya.
The then Congress ministers, P Sabita Indra Reddy, J Geetha Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Kanna Lakshminarayana, Mopidevi Venkata Ramana and Dharmana Prasada Rao too faced the CBI cases in this regard.
