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IN CASH-FOR-VOTE ACCUSED WRITES TO CJI

Jerusalem Mathaiah, one of the accused in the cash-for-vote scam case, has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) urging him to grant him permission to appear in person before the Supreme Court to reveal the facts of the case.

In June 2016, the Hyderabad High Court quashed the criminal proceedings initiated by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ABC) of Telangana against Mathaiah. The ACB had challenged his acquittal before the Supreme Court.

Speaking to media persons on Friday, Mr Mathaiah said that the governments of AP and Telangana had made a scapegoat of him. Alleging that he had been receiving threats, he said that he had nothing do with the case.

The TRS government had tried to involve AP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and later the AP government tried to involve the municipal and urban development minister K.T. Rama Rao in the case based on the phone call he made to him.

Mr Mathaiah said that the AP government had supported him for as long as his case was pending before the High Court, but ever since his case had moved to the Supreme Court, no one had been keeping him abreast of the developments. He said that he wanted to appear before the court in person and reveal all the facts of the case.

ACB sleuths caught TD MLA A. Revanth Reddy red-handed while offering `50 lakh as a bribe to nominate MLA Elvis Stephenson of the TRS party, on May 31, 2015.