Media baron CH Ramoji Rao, who tried to bluff the Supreme Court, got a stern warning for it.
He obtained a prime location (Seetammadhara area) in Visakhapatnam on long lease from Kumar Varma and started his 'Eenadu' news paper three decades ago. However, he not only handed over a part of the land for road widening and obtained the same size of land in some other place on his own name, but also not bothered to inform the owner of the site about the deal. When, the lease period was over some ten years ago, then only the owner come to know about his deals. Then onwards, the owner of the site tried getting back his site but in vain.
He even tried to bring him to book, but Ramoji Rao being the media baron and having high influence in the Government, no one dares to against him, even police.
After a decade-long battle in the courts, the owner of the site Kumar Varma has proved his ownership of the site and also proved that he has been cheated by Ramoji Rao in all aspects. Even then also Ramoji Rao has been wisely prolonging the case filing new petitions in different courts.
Even today, he is not ready to vacate the land nor is willing to accept the court orders. A cheating case has been filed against him in 3 Town Police station in Visakhapatnam upon the court orders. Yet, Ramoji Rao preferred to take the legal battle to higher level- Supreme Court.
Although he acquired 11,000 sq.ft. on lease from Kumar Varma, Ramoji Rao has tried to bluff the Supreme Court stating that he has taken only 9200 sq.ft only on lease and rest of the land which measures 1800 sq.ft belongs to him. He also appealed the court to allow him to make some changes to his petition filed in High Court against Kumar Varma, and to order the owner of the site to extend the lease period.
The Supreme Court which was satisfied with the documental evidences submitted by land owner Kumar Varma, has not only rejected Ramoji Rao's petition and also warned him that he has to face criminal charges for intentionally misguiding the courts.
Then also Ramoji Rao once again tried to bluff the Supreme Court stating that he has been with the opinion that the 1800 sq.ft piece of land his own and he is not aware of the fact that it belongs to Kumar Varma.
Supreme Court comprising Justice Lodha and Gokle have given a stern warning to Ramoji Rao and dismissed his petition.
2008/3/29 2:06:20 Media baron and chairman of Margadarsi financiers, Cherukuri Ramoji Rao is now in real trouble. The Supreme Court on Friday set aside his plea seeking a stay on the investigations by the state police into the alleged irregularities by the state government and investigating agencies.
The Supreme Court has now made it clear that the state government can now initiate action against Ramoji Rao for any irregularities committed by his group. If found guilty, Ramoji Rao will have to pay a fine of 7,000 crore and also face the prospect of a two year jail term.
Jagan’s Saakshi naturally went to town with this development. It carried two big stories very prominently on page one today. Ramoji Rao and his son Ch Kiron are now on bail for four months in connection with a criminal case related to land in Visakhapatnam.
2008/3/11 5:51:26 Eenadu chief editor and Margadarsi chairman Ramoji Rao faced some very embarrassing situation today. Ramoji Rao had field a petition in the high court in connection with some income tax notices served on him. In his petition Ramoji Rao made some personal allegations against chief minister YS Rajashekar Reddy. The court took objection to this and asked Ramoji Rao to drop the personal allegations and submit the petition afresh. But even after a week, Ramoji did not comply.
The High Court today took a strong note of this and raped Ramoji on the knuckles. The court asked Ramoji to comply with its directive immediately. The court also slapped a fine of 10,000 rupees on Ramoji Rao.
It has been reliably learnt that the state government is very serious about the sales tax evasion by ETV and Ushakiron movies. The group led by Ramoji Rao had contested the charges and even went on an appeal. The appeal was dismissed both by the Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal and the High Court.
Ramoji Rao later filed a Special Leave Petition before the Supreme Court and obtained a temporary stay. The state government now is trying to get the stay vacated and recover the money. The firms owned by Ramoji Rao have reportedly evaded paying sales tax which has run up to nearly Rs. 15 crores.
2008/2/11 9:00:22 The Eenadu chief Ramoji Rao and his son Ch. Kiron are now on bail. They have been on bail for almost three months now. The court issued an arrest warrant on Ramoji Rao and Kiron flowing a case filed by the owner of the premises on which Eenadu now stands.
The petitioner claimed that Ramoji Rao and Kiron had cheated him by forging some documents. He said that Ramoi Rao surrendered a part of the land to the government for road widening. The government gave alternate land and Ramoji Rao and Kiron got the land registered in their names.
Ramoji Rao has since refuted this. He claimed that he and his son are innocent. Ramoji Rao moved a bail petition in the High Court seeking extension of bail. The High Court directed Ramoji Rao to first surrender before the court in Visakhapatnam within the next ten day. The High Court will take up his bail petition after that.
2012/3/29 1:20:25 The Kammam district Court has rejected the appeal made by media baron Ramoji Rao today. District TRS In-Charge Somayya has filed a petition against him for publishing false news against him in Eenadu news paper. Ramoji Rao, who was summoned by the court has appealed to spare him from personally attending the case as he is busy with his day to day affairs. However, the court has turned down his appeal and asked him to attend personally.
2011/4/19 10:13:37 Media baron Ramoji Rao who is running a dozen TV Channels in different languages has been flayed by Karnataka high court for telecasting a Kannada TV serial titled ‘Mukta…Mukta’ without knowing about its content.
Responding to a petition filed against him, the high court has summoned him to attend the trial in April second week. But, as usually he skips the trial stating that, he is busy with his business affairs. But, the high court says that he can’t ask for excuses any more showing his busy schedules and asked him to attend the court whenever he is summoned. The court asked him that, if he doesn’t have idea about the content of the serial and what is going on in his channels, then why did he started a TV Channel? Ramoji Rao has apologize the high court.
2007/12/11 7:08:15 This could be the ultimate embarrassment faced by media baron Ramoji Rao in all his life. A case under section 420 has been booked against him. The case pertains to the 2.7 acres land leased out to Ramoji Rao by one M A Easwarkumar Varma.
Varma now alleges that Ramoji Rao and his son Ch Kiron, MD of Eenadu have cheated him by forging some documents. The government acquired about 570 yards of land from the site for road widening. The government gave an alternative site measuring about 600 yards.
Varma says that Ramoji Rao and his son have got the land registered in their names when it should rightfully belong to him. He approached the court and the court has now directed the police to file a case and serve notices to Ramoji Rao and Kiron under section 420 and other sections.
The media baron Ramoji Rao who preaches values and ethics through his paper Eenadu is not known to practice them.
When the media gathered outside the court premises to cover the event of Ramoji Rao and his son Kiran attending the court, the goons of Ramoji Rao prevented the scribes from covering this.
The goons attacked the TV journalists and beat up a couple of reporters. The camera of a TV journalist was damaged.
The journalists have lodged a complaint against Ramoji Rao in the police station.
Media baron and chief of Eenadu and Margadarsi group Ramoji Rao along with his son Kiran surrendered in court on Visakhapatnam today.
The media baron has been accused of cheating the owner of the land in Seethammadhara where the Eenadu office is located.
The government acquired soma part of the land for road widening and gave alternate land. But Ramoji Rao and Kiran who happen to be just the lease holders got the compensation land registered in their names when it should have been rightfully given to the owner of the property.
2011/6/10 3:55:42 Kanimoli the daughter of Karunanidhi has knocked the Supreme Court doors today for bail, after the Delhi High Court rejects her bail application. She and the Kalaingar TV Channel Director Sarath Kumar have filed bail petitions in Supreme Court on Friday. Earlier, Supreme Court also refuses to sanction bail to them, yet they are desperately trying for the bail. If, she couldn’t get the bail this time, certainly it is going to affect Congress and DMK relations very badly.
IAS officer Srilakshmi who was arrested in Obulapuram illegal mining cases and released on bail few days ago was asked by High Court to surrender before CBI court before Friday evening. However, she has approached Supreme Court appealing to extend her bail period. But, Supreme Court has refused to intervene in High Court's decision. Hence, she has to surrender before CBI court by today evening.
2007/12/14 3:14:09 The Eenadu chief Ramoji Rao and his son Ch Kiron have sough anticipatory bail in a cheating case. The bail petition was filed in the Visakhapatnam court on Thursday. One Mr AEK Krishna Varma filed the case. The petitioner had given his land on lease to Ramoji Rao.
The Mucipal Corporation acquired about 517 yards of land for road widening. And Ramoji Rao and Ch Kiron were given 817 square yards of land as compensation. The petitioner says that Ramoji Rao and Kiron took the land by forging some documents. He was also kept in the dark about the compensation given by the municipal corporation.
Eenadu chief Ramoji Rao and his son Ch Kiron surrendered in the three-town police station in Visakhapatnam. The surrender follows a directive given by the High Court in the land cheating case.
Ramoji Rao and Kiron are on bail for the past three months in connection with a case. The High court set the pre-condition for extending the bail.
Ramoji Rao and his son are alleged to have taken land in lieu of land surrendered for road widening in Visakhapatnam. The petitioner said that he had been cheated, as Ramoji Rao is not the owner but only a tenant. Hence he had no right to take compensation from government and then get it registered in his name.
High drama preceded the surrendered. Ramoji Rao and Kiron were ‘covered’ with the help of tow large black umbrellas. Some of the staff from his group companies formed into a shield and obstructed TV cameramen and photographers from taking pictures and video. The even used plastic chairs to block the waiting lens men from taking pictures. The TV crew had a difficult time catching them on their cameras.
2007/8/25 5:31:47 Ramoji Rao suffered a setback when the Supreme Court upheld the state government’s contention that the names of all the depositors and their addresses be provided. Margadarsi has been dodging the issue and the details of some depositors that it provided were vague and did not have details like address etc.
The court asked Margadarsi to immediately deposit the unclaimed matured amount in an escrow account. The firm has also been asked to provide complete details about the bank accounts of Margadarsi.
2011/11/23 12:17:54 The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to interfere with the Andhra Pradesh High Court orders directing the Central Bureau of Investigation and other agencies to conduct a probe into TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu's alleged illegal assets.
TDP MP Nama Nageshwar Rao, industrialist C M Ramesh and media baron Ramoji Rao filed a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court against the High Court orders. In their petition, they argued that the High Court order was against the principles of natural justice as they were not served notices and their version was not heard. They said the order violates the Article 21 of the Constitution and damages the reputation of people concerned.
However, a three member bench comprising Justice D Bhandari, Justice Deepak Mishra and Justice T D Thakur rejected their petition and refused to stay the probe. But, the bench asked the petitioners to put their arguments before the AP High Court as it was dealing with the matter. The apex court said that it would direct the High Court to hear their arguments within 15 days.
It was on November 14 that the State High Court ordered a preliminary probe by the CBI and other agencies into the alleged illegal assets of Chandrababu Naidu. The court issued ordered based on a petition filed by Pulivendula MLA YS Vijayamma, the widow of the former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. The agencies were asked to probe the land allotments and sanctioning of various projects to his allies by Chandrababu during his tenure as the Chief Minister and submit a report within three months. (INN)
2011/7/19 22:04:10 Media baron Ramoji Rao had to wear black face again on a land deal case. All his 3 petitions meant to prolong the land lease deal case were scrapped by 9th session court judge at Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.
Ramoji Rao, who often slings mud against others through his powerful media network, has been illegally occupying a piece of prime land for years after the expiry of the lease deal. He took 2.78 acres of prime land on 33 years long lease from Manthena Aditya Varma in the year 1974 to establish his Eenadu news paper unit. This lease agreement was completed in year 2007, but he refuses to vacate and hand over the land to its owner Varma until now.
Ramoji Rao not only refusing to vacate the land, but he has also surrendered a piece of land from it to government for roads widening and obtained the same size of land in another area on his name as an exchange. He not even bothered to consult or take permission from the owner of the land before making this deal. This land is located in Seethammadhara area the heart of the Visakhapatnam city, from where his Eenadu Vizag edition is running now.
When, Manthena Aditya Varma fails to get possession of his site, he has complained against Ramoji Rao in 3town police station on 6.12.2007. But, even the police were afraid to take any action against the powerful and highly influenced Ramoji Rao. Hence, Varma sought the help of High Court. It has ordered the police to file an FIR against Ramoji Rao and start investigation of the case. Then only, the police have filed an FIR against Ramoji Rao (on 8.5.2010) with which Ramoji Rao is forced to step into court to counter the case. But, he is clever enough to use the loop holes in our law. He keep filing separate petitions on various reasons to prolong the case. In his petitions, he has asked the court to postpone the case as the lease documents were under mortgage with Union bank of India, Hyderabad. But, since the land owner Varma posses the copy of the lease deal, the court has scrapped Ramoji Rao’s petitions and adjourned the case to August 8th.
The 85 year old grand old man and the former Governor of AP state ND Tiwari, who was ousted for his sexual affairs with some women inside the Raj Bhavan, has been suffering from his ‘son stroke’ since last several years. At this elderly age he is knocking every door in the capital that can put an end to the Supreme Court trail launched against him by his forbidden son Rohit Shekar.
Rohit Shekar claims that, he is the biological son of ND Tiwari who had an extra marital relationship with his mother Ujwala Sharma, while he was young and handling the Congress affairs in New Delhi. However, ND Tiwari keeps denying having any sexual relationship with her and refused to accept Rohit Shekar as his son. Hence, Rohit is obliged to knock the court doors seeking a DNA test of his father to prove his relationship with him.
The Delhi High Court when asked Tiwari to go for a DNA test, he bluntly refused to do so and filed a petition in Supreme Court seeking a stay on the high court orders. But, then he couldn’t predict that, he came to a point where there is no return. Supreme Court also insisted him to undergo DNA test to prove his innocence in this case. It also rejected his petition to give a stay on high court order and suggested him to follow the high court order without making any fuss. However, Supreme Court gives the old man to spell his preferred mode of DNA test, but he refused to disclose it. How the Supreme Court handles this odd old man to have DNA test is to be watched.
2011/11/23 14:06:06 Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday hailed the Supreme Court decision of not to interfere in the Andhra Pradesh High Court's order directing the CBI and other agencies to probe allegations of financial irregularities against himself and other respondents.
Talking to media persons after participating in the padayatra as part of Rythu Porubata at Eeriepaka village in Jaggampeta mandal in East Godavari district, Naidu said that he would respect the apex court orders and cooperate with probing agencies in their investigations. With the apex court directions, Naidu said TDP leaders and respondents have got an opportunity to present strong arguments through their counsel in the state High Court.
Naidu made this comments after the apex court bench refused to give stay on Special Leave Petition filed by TDP MP Nama Nageswara rao, Industrialist C M Ramesh and media baron Ramoji Rao stating that the High Court order was against the principles of natural justice as they were not served notices and their version was not heard.
Meanwhile, TDP MP Nama Nageswara Rao said that they have approached the Supreme Court as they felt that the High Court order was against the principles of natural justice. He expressed confidence that High Court would do justice to their petition and hear their arguments within 15 days as per the direction of apex court.
Nageswara Rao alleged that Pulivendula MLA Y S Vijayamma filed the petition in the state high court with a political motive and to divert the attention of people on CBI probe going on against Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. (INN)
2011/5/30 7:38:55 Chiranjeevi’s son-in-law Sirish Bharadwaj who is facing dowry harassment case filed by his wife Srija had another set back today with his bail application. When, the High Court rejected his bail application, he knocks Supreme Court doors. But, there also he got rejection. Today, Supreme Court has refused to grant him bail. Hence, he has no other option except surrendering to police and face trial in the court.
Srija is currently staying with her parents and is planning to make her career in producing serials in small screen.
2011/9/9 3:00:03 The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned the hearing on petition filed by YSR Congress party president Jaganmohan Reddy seeking a stay on the CBI investigation on Jagathi Publications and its associate companies to September 16. The apex court stated that it would hold hearing on both Jagathi Publications and Emaar Properties cases separately on September 16.
Earlier, the counsel of TDP leader K Yerran Naidu objected to hearing of both Jagathi Publications and Emaar Properties cases on same day. However, the Supreme Court said the cases would be heard separately, to which Yerran Naidu counsel agreed. Then the apex court posted both the cases to September 16. It may be mentioned that Jagan and Emaar Properties had moved to the Supreme Court to stall the on-going CBI probe take up following the directions of High court. (INN)
Media baron CH Ramoji Rao, who tried to bluff the Supreme Court, got a stern warning for it. 
The Kammam district Court has rejected the appeal made by media baron Ramoji Rao today. District TRS In-Charge Somayya has filed a petition against him for publishing false news against him in Eenadu news paper. Ramoji Rao, who was summoned by the court has appealed to spare him from personally attending the case as he is busy with his day to day affairs. However, the court has turned down his appeal and asked him to attend personally. 
Kanimoli the daughter of Karunanidhi has knocked the Supreme Court doors today for bail, after the Delhi High Court rejects her bail application. She and the Kalaingar TV Channel Director Sarath Kumar have filed bail petitions in Supreme Court on Friday. Earlier, Supreme Court also refuses to sanction bail to them, yet they are desperately trying for the bail. If, she couldn’t get the bail this time, certainly it is going to affect Congress and DMK relations very badly.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to interfere with the Andhra Pradesh High Court orders directing the Central Bureau of Investigation and other agencies to conduct a probe into TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu's alleged illegal assets.
Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday hailed the Supreme Court decision of not to interfere in the Andhra Pradesh High Court's order directing the CBI and other agencies to probe allegations of financial irregularities against himself and other respondents.
Chiranjeevi’s son-in-law Sirish Bharadwaj who is facing dowry harassment case filed by his wife Srija had another set back today with his bail application. When, the High Court rejected his bail application, he knocks Supreme Court doors. But, there also he got rejection. Today, Supreme Court has refused to grant him bail. Hence, he has no other option except surrendering to police and face trial in the court. 
The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned the hearing on petition filed by YSR Congress party president Jaganmohan Reddy seeking a stay on the CBI investigation on Jagathi Publications and its associate companies to September 16.
