CCS plans cases against absconding TDP leaders

Hyderabad, May 7 (UNI) Based on Mohd Rashid Ali alias Rashid's confessional statement and primary investigation reports, the Central Crime Station (CCS) Police is preparing ground to register cases against the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders involved in the fake passport scam and those absconding.

Police said they had started investigating the involvement of former MP and TDP leader Suguna Kumari and former state minister N Kistappa, whose names figured in Rashid's confessional statement.

Police teams were sent to Karim Nagar and Anantapur districts, the constituencies of Suguna and Kistappa respectively, to investigate their role in the scam.

Cases would be registered against the two TDP leaders once their passports were seized and checked.

The district police had been asked to trace the two absconding leaders.

The CCS police had contacted the US Consulate and obtained details of the two TDP leaders' visit to the Consulate.

In his confessional letter, Rashid claimed that Suguna visited the US Consulate at Chennai along with eight Gujaratis for arranging visas with her original passport in 2003.

Rashid revealed that he had paid Rs one lakh as advance to her which she never returned and offered Rs 20 lakh to Kistappa for arranging visas for four Gujarati women.

UNI