The Anti-Corruption Bureau authorities on Tuesday arrested suspended CBI special court judge T Pattabhirama Rao in the cash-for-bail case involving mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy.

The ACB sleuths, who had taken permission from the high court, raided the residence of Pattabhirama Rao and took him into custody, besides confiscating relevant documents from him. Later, they declared that he was arrested and took him into the ACB office at Moazzam Jahi Market for questioning. He would be produced in the court later in the day.

The ACB already arrested Pattabhi’s son Ravichandra and retired judge T V Chalapathi Rao and others in the case and sent them to judicial remand. It had registered an FIR against Pattabhirama Rao, along with seven others on Saturday last. Those who were booked in the case include two BJP legislators from Karnataka-- Gali’s brother G Somasekhara Reddy from Bellary (urban) constituency and Suresh Babu from Kampli constituency.

The cases were filed under 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 34 (common unlawful objective), 109 (abetment ) and 219 (corrupt judicial pronouncement) of the Indian Penal Code and sections 8, 9 & 13(1)(d), read with 13 (2) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

The High court suspended Pattabhirama Rao on May 31 on the charges of taking bribe to the extent of Rs 10 crore in two instalments from Gali to grant him bail in the Obulapuram Mining Company’s illegal mining case on May 11. The CBI officials, who initially probed the case, had seized Rs 2.87 crore from the lockers of the judge’s kin at a nationalized bank in Hyderabad.