Red Corner notice (RCN) issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against Congress member of Rajya Sabha KVP Ramachandra Rao has reached the Crime Investigation Department of Andhra Pradesh police.
CID additional director general Krishna Prasad confirmed that the RCN had reached them through the CBI. Top CID officials were busy in consultations with the High Court lawyers to decide their next course of action. KVP’s name figure in the list of accused in the Titanium scam case filed by the FBI. He has been charged with demanding bribe for the approval of a project of processing titanium from beach sand in Visakhapatanam when he was the advisor to the then Chief Minister YS Rajashekhar Reddy.
Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu urged Governor ESl Narasimhan to take necessary steps and sanction the arrest Rao. Naidu alleged that being a Rajya Sabha member he had insulted Andhra Pradesh through his involvement in bribery scandal.“leaders with such criminal character should be immediately sent to jail,” Naidu said in a letter to the Governor.Congress, facing the heat on the issue, has said that the law should take its own course against Rao.