CBI director in city to discuss Kaleshwaram project probe

CBI Director Praveen Sood is likely to chair a meeting of the agency's joint directors of the southern states in Hyderabad on Saturday, where he is expected to review the recent developments regarding alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme.

- IREDDY SRINIVAS REDDY @Hyderabad

Sources said the meeting will be held at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy between 1.30 pm and 3.30 pm, where teams are likely to be formed to take up the investigation.

CBI sources said Sood reached Hyderabad on Friday evening and then left for Srisailam, where he will have a darshan at the Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple on Saturday morning before returning to the city. They added that the CBI's Hyderabad Zonal Unit has collected the Justice PC Ghose Commission, NDSA, and state Vigilance and Enforcement reports along with Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau FIRs, remand reports and other documents related to cases where engineers have been booked for possessing disproportionate assets.