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Jagan's Cases: 11 Chargesheets, 15 Years, and Not One Day of Trial — Who Is Responsible for the Delay?

In August 2011, the CBI registered a case saying that companies had put money into Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy's businesses in return for favours from his father's government. He was arrested in 2012 and released on bail in 2013. Fifteen years after the case began, the trial has still not started. Some companies have been cleared by the High Court. Others have been told they must face trial. Jagan has been chief minister, lost power, and travelled to London and Europe with court permission, while the case waits. This is the full story of what is alleged, what the courts have actually decided, why it has taken so long, and what it tells us about who can afford justice in India.

Written by Zoomed Vinay