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Satyam fraud case | SC grants bail to five accused

Satyam fraud case | SC grants bail to five accused

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New Delhi: Four former employees of IT major Satyam Computers Services Ltd and a former auditor of PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), arrested for their alleged roles in multi-crore accounting fraud involving the software firm, were on Wednesday granted bail by the Supreme Court.

“On the totality of the circumstances, we deem it appropriate to release them on bail on a personal bond of Rs2 lakh and surety of like amount," a bench of justices Dalveer Bhandari and Dipak Misra said, while granting bail to the five accused.

The former Satyam employees, who were granted bail, were its former internal chief auditor V. S. Prabhakar Gupta besides executives G. Ramakrishna, D. Venkatpathi Raju and Ch. Srisailam. The fifth accused, who got the bail, is PWC’s former auditor Subramani Gopalakrishnan.

The five had approached the apex court challenging the 30 August order of Andhra Pradesh high court which had rejected their bail pleas.

Of the total ten accused in the case, Satyam’s founder B. Ramalinga Raju’s younger brother B. Suryanarayana Raju and former PWC auditor T. Srinivas had already been granted bail by different courts earlier.

The prime accused, B. Ramalinga Raju and his brother and Satyam’s former MD B. Rama Raju, have so far not approached the apex court for bail and are still lodged in Hyderabad’s Chanchalguda Central Prison under judicial custody.

The tenth accused in the case is Satyam’s former chief financial officer Vadlamani Srinivas, who too is in judicial custody.

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Published: 12 Oct 2011, 03:14 PM IST
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