Dr. Rajaiah’s close aide arrested by ACB

Earlier, during in the last month, Telangana Chief Minister KCR has expelled his deputy Dr. Rajaiah from his cabinet for his alleged involvement in ambulances scam. The scam takes places when he was also holding medical and health portfolio. Then Rajaiah has made hue and cry but later switched off.

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths have conducted raids on the four houses of his close associate P Sambasiva Rao, who is serving as the Warangal district medical and health officer (DM&HO) on Thursday and taken him into custody after confirming that he is possessing disproportionate assets. They have seized valuable moveable and immovable properties from P Sambasiva Rao, during their simultaneous raids on his houses in Warangal and Hanamkonda on Thursday.

The ACB officials have found he has four houses in Warangal and Hanmakonda, a flat in Uppal, Hyderabad, five plots in Hyderabad and Warangal and 4.3 acres of agricultural land in Warangal district. He is the main stake holder in the Kartikeyan Institute of Management Sciences at Arepally in Warangal district. The officials also found he has two cars Innova and Santro. They also found he mortgaged 1.3 kgs of gold in different banks. All his properties found by the ACB officials’ runs into several crores.

ACB officials have taken him into custody and produced him before the court. If, Sambhasiva Rao reveals about his connections with the former deputy Chief Minister Dr.Rajaiah and about the corruption taken place during his short period of 8 months term, then Rajaiah also may land in problems.