It looks like there is no respite to YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in his alleged illegal assets case. Even as he has been languishing in Chanchalguda jail for over a month without even getting the bail, the Enforcement Directorate has got the permission to interrogate him in the case.

The CBI special court on Friday granted permission to the ED authorities to question Jagan in the jail for two weeks between July 7 and July 21. They would grill him in the presence of lawyers from morning to evening on the alleged violation of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and the Foreign Exchange Management Act.

Though Jagan submitted to the court that the ED cannot question him as he was not the chairman of Jagathi Publications and was not involved in its monetary transactions, the court did not buy his argument. The ED would question him in the capacity of the director of Jagathi on the investments received from firms based abroad in violation of the norms.

The ED had already questioned Nimmagadda Prasad, B P Acharya and Sunil Reddy in the jail in connection with the Jagan case as well as Emaar Properties case.