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Officials of Income Tax (IT) on Monday raided about 60 places in Karnataka belonging to people close to the Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brothers, iron ore miners and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers in the state. The Reddy brothers own the Obulapuram Mining Company and become billionaires after entering the mining business about 10 years ago.

The places raided included the Bangalore office of Health Minister B. Sriramulu, a confidant of the Reddy brothers – Tourism Minister G. Janardhana Reddy and his elder brother and Revenue Minister G. Karunakara Reddy.

Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao said that he is boycotting Sakhi newspaper and Sakshi TV channel belonging to Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy.

Sakshi has written entirely different story on the happenings at Mahaboobnagar, he said. Sakshi is writing all negative stories against me with ill-intention, he maintained.

On Friday, VH asked Sakshi reporters to leave a press meet organized
by him as they are not invited to the event. I won’t speak if Sakshi team stays here, said VH in the press meet. Not only now, I will never talk to you (Sakshi), he said angrily