Hyderabad:
A local court has extended till November 14 the judicial custody of former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy and Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) Managing Director B Srinivas Reddy in the illegal mining case.
The special court for CBI extended the judicial remand (through video conference) of both the accused.
On September 5, the CBI, probing the alleged illegal mining by OMC, arrested the Reddys from Bellary in Karnataka and they were remanded in judicial custody at the Chenchalguda central prison here.
The OMC owned by Gali Janardhan Reddy is accused of changing mining lease boundary markings between Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and indulging in "illegal" mining in the Bellary Reserve Forest.