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Saturday, 3 December 2011

Was Srilakshmi confident to get bail??


Did the IAS officer Y Srilakshmi had an inkling that she would get bail in the illegal mining case within 24 hours of being sent to jail?
Going by the way she managed to walk out of Chanchalguda prison, it appears that she did. Interestingly, she did not carry even a pair of clothes along with her to the jail which is normally the case with most of the other prisoners. Within 24 hours of being imprisoned, the bureaucrat was released on conditional bail.
This has baffled the political class. They said that a politician like Gali Janardhan Reddy is still languishing in prison while Srilakshmi, arrested for the same case, could walk out. She was released on bail on four grounds: She is a woman officer, she is not keeping good health, the investigation in the case is one year old and the deadline for filing the charge sheet was nearing.
Srilakshmi was in CBI custody for three days before she was handed over to judicial remand as per court orders. Few expected that her bail petition would be allowed, given both the seriousness of the charges levelled against her by the CBI as well as the recent such instances where the high and the mighty in high profile cases were bluntly refused freedom

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