ED sleuths grill brothers of Talasani Srinivas Yadav in Chikoti Praveen case

After examining the documents, the ED officials called Talasani Mahender and Dharmeder Yadav for questioning.

The sleuths suspected that they went abroad with Praveen to organise casino tours and moved money through hawala routes.

KCR prediction comes true

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao hinted on Tuesday at the party state executive and legislature party meeting that the party leaders should not lose nerve as the BJP was sure to send Central probe agencies after them in an attempt to bend them.

It materialised when the ED officials summoned the minister’s two brothers for questioning, and are understood to be in the process of summoning an MLC and a few lower-rung TRS leaders.

Only recently the ED and I-T Department officials raided granite companies based out of Karimagnar and seized documents and cash.

Some of them belonged to relatives of Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar.

The ED officials broke the lock on Gangula’s house to gain access, though they did it after taking permission from him as he was abroad at that time.

Meanwhile, the investigation by the SIT ordered by the state government into the attempt to buy TRS MLAs allegedly by BJP emissaries is progressing. The police are questioning people not only in Telangana but also outside the state.

These raids and counter-raids appear to have been having a disquieting influence on the TRS as well as the BJP, who are going for each other’s collars to seize power in the state in the next Assembly elections.