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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has picked holes successful the full process adopted successful accepting landed properties arsenic donation from C.V. Ravi Kumar, the accused successful the infamous Parakamani scam case.
Ravi Kumar, a clerk successful the Chinna Jeeyangar Mutt, had been recovered blameworthy of stealing immoderate overseas currency notes deposited successful the Srivari Hundi successful April 2023. Later, a compromise was reportedly reached successful the Lok Adalat connected September 9, 2023, with the accused admitting to the transgression and agreeing to “voluntarily” get the properties helium purchased with the “tainted money” registered successful the sanction of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD).
The lawsuit had been reopened and handed implicit to the CID.
A time aft CID Director-General Ravishankar Ayyanar took possession of the files pertaining to the lawsuit from the TTD, aft being reprimanded by the High Court for the delay, the BJP brought retired procedural lapses successful the mode the lawsuit had been handled by the erstwhile spot committee nether the chairmanship of Y.V. Subba Reddy, erstwhile the scam allegedly saw light.
Addressing the media present connected October 15, 2025 (Wednesday), TTD committee subordinate and BJP State spokesperson G. Bhanuprakash Reddy pointed to the “gaping discrepancies” successful the process adopted by the board, particularly up of accepting landed properties arsenic acquisition oregon donation from the public.
As per Rule 159(2) to 160 of Chapter XXI, issued successful G.O. Ms. No. 311 by the Revenue (Endowments-I) Department, dated April 9, 1990, it is required to people notices successful regular newspapers, duly calling for objections oregon suggestions from the public.
However, the board, astatine its gathering connected June 19, 2023, made solution No.159, exempting work of announcement arsenic a “special lawsuit and arsenic a one-time measurement owed to clip constraint,” Mr. Bhanuprakash Reddy said, and wondered what had forced the TTD committee to propulsion done the solution successful a hurry.
“The apical officials who were progressive successful the case, close from the TTD medication to the Chief Minister’s Office, had an oculus connected the properties,” helium alleged, suggesting that “the clip constraint” was an excuse to fell the details of the properties from getting public.
Another “lapse” pointed retired by ineligible adept and BJP metropolis president K. Ajay Kumar was the missive of consent fixed by Ravi Kumar to registry his properties successful favour of the TTD, which happened a time aft the aforesaid were really taken implicit by the TTD.
“Should consent precede takeover oregon vice-versa? In their hurry to hush up the issue, the officials resorted to specified glaring lapses that are seeing airy today,” Mr. Bhanuprakash Reddy said, demanding a elaborate probe.
