Hundreds of original property papers were stacked in cardboard boxes and loaded into cars, even as CID officials ran all around Hyderabad to trace Raju’s properties.
The Rajus loaded land documents into vehicles, which were always mobile, so that they do not fall into police hands.
Hundreds of original property papers were stacked in cardboard boxes and loaded into the vehicles, even as Criminal Investigation Department officials ran all around Hyderabad to trace jailed Satyam Computer Services founder B Ramalinga Raju’s properties.
The vehicles’ whereabouts was only known to Datla Venkata Gopala Krishna Raju (DVGK Raju), associated with Ramalinga Raju’s realty activities since the 1990s.
Even family members handed over their property documents to DVGK Raju in original, for safe custody.
After interrogation of persons known to Ramalinga Raju and senior officials of Satyam, CID personnel traced DVGK Raju. After interrogating him for over two days, he opened the can of properties. The strategy of keeping documents mobile surprised police. DVGK Raju was arrested on Saturday.
While the number of vehicles used for transportation of documents is said to be six, police could trace only one Innova. They also traced six secret locations where some documents were stored.
All property activities of Ramalinga Raju were taken care of by a group of Rajus, a community known to be shrewd in businesses like seafood, poultry and agriculture.
DVGK Raju hails from a village near Ramalinga Raju’s native place of Bheemavaram in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.
He told police that he planned to keep the papers mobile after B S N Raju, another brother of Ramalinga Raju, instructed him to keep them away from the police.
According to estimates based on the documents recovered from DVGK Raju, Ramalinga Raju’s family acquired about 4,190 acres in the state and country. However, some land purchased by the Rajus belongs to tribals and cannot be sold.
“Ramalinga Raju joined hands with a teacher-turned-realtor on the outskirts of Hyderabad to buy property belonging to the Lambadas (tribals). These transactions are about 400 acres. This is an illegal transaction as the land in the hands of tribals is given by the government only for cultivation. It cannot be sold as the tribals do not have ownership rights. We are getting details of all transactions,” a source said.
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