The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the CBI for failing to frame charges even after 6 years in a mining case against former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy. Reddy had moved the apex court seeking permission to visit Ballari to see his father-in-law recuperating from a health condition and currently admitted in the ICU of a local hospital. The court had scheduled the hearing on the matter for Friday.

The #SupremeCourt on June 7 pulled up the #CBI for failing to frame charges even after 6 years in a mining case against former #Karnataka minister and mining baron #GaliJanardhanaReddy.

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Granting Reddy two weeks, beginning from June 8, to visit Ballari and attend to his ailing father-in-law, the apex court sought a concrete reply from the CBI regarding the reason for the long delay in framing charges in the case. "Even 6 yrs down the line charges have not been framed yet. Why? We would like to know ..we are concerned", said a bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and Ajay Rastogi