HYDERABAD: Justice NRL Nageswara Rao of the A P High Court on Monday cancelled the bail granted to senior IAS Officer Y Srilakshmi in the illegal mining case and directed her to surrender before the CBI court before January 6.Srilakshmi was arrested in the illegal mining case for her alleged role in allotting mining leases to Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) of Gali Janardhana Reddy, who is also lodged in jail now for perpetrating a mega mining scam. However, the trial court had granted her bail on December 3, 2011, a day after her three-day police custody ended. The CBI that is probing the case challenged the decision of the CBI court in granting bail.Finding fault with the trial court which granted her bail on the grounds that all the evidence in the case is documentary and cannot be tampered with now, the HC said: "the conspiracy as already stated cannot be proved by documentary evidence alone and unless oral evidence is collected by the investigating agency, mere documentary evidence is not sufficient and the investigating agency cannot be deprived of its right in this regard. There is more than sufficient material available on record to show how Srilakshmi was associated with the grant of lease and issuing of GOs which ultimately favoured the OMC, ignoring the vital condition of the purpose of lease being 'captive mining' for the proposed steel plant to be set up by OMC in the GO," Justice Nageswara Rao said.In this case so far, as the status and position of the respondent is concerned, there cannot be any two opinion since she is an IAS officer and her husband is an IPS officer.
