A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan directed Talluri to furnish a personal bond of Rs 20 lakh (Rs 2 million) and two sureties of like amount.
The Central Bureau of India on Monday opposed the bail plea of Price Waterhouse auditor Srinivas Talluri who was arrested in Satyam fraud case for allegedly conniving with its founder B Ramalinga Raju and other aides.
It was in 2009 that the accounting regulator set up a special disciplinary committee, comprising six members, to look into the fraud in Hyderabad-based IT firm.
Satyam Computer Services founder B Ramalinga Raju, ex-CEO B Rama Raju and ex-CFO Vadlamani Srinivas in window-dressing the company's accounts, according to the remand case diary filed by the Economic Offences Wing of the Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department.
A court allowed the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), a central government body, to question Satyam Computer Services founder B Ramalinga Raju, former managing director B Rama Raju, former chief financial officer Srinivas Vadlamani and two Price Waterhouse auditors, S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri, for six days from March 29.
The fourth additional sessions court in Hyderabad on Wednesday posted the orders on the bail petition of Price Waterhouse auditors to Thursday.
The ICAI president said that the auditors would be interrogated mainly on accounting and auditing aspects and to check whether they followed the right methods of accounting. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has obtained permission from a local court to interrogate the two auditors and examine and record their statements.
"I told my office to take permission of the court because I want director, discipline, to begin proceedings against them (S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri).
DiPiazza's visit coincides with Price Waterhouse suspending two of its partners -- S Goplakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri -- who worked on the accounts of scam-hit Satyam Computer Services and were arrested last week.
ICAI has also imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on each of the three accused in Satyam case.
Experts regretted that it has taken too long to deliver justice
PwC one of the big four audit firms, has expressed disappointment at the conviction of two former partners in the Satyam scam.
The Sixth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on Wednesday allowed Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to quiz Satyam Computer's former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas and ex-Price Waterhouse partners S Gopalakrishan and Talluri Srinivas.
Besides the Raju brothers, the CBI would be quizzing Satyam's former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas and audit house Price Waterhouse's partners S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas in connection with the Rs 7,800 crore (Rs 78-billion)accounting fraud at Satyam Computer.
The accused has been lodged in Chanchalguda central jail.
The XIV additional chief metropolitan magistrate extended the remand of Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju, ex-CFO Vadlamani Srinivas, former auditors of Price Waterhouse S Gopapalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas, and three former employees of the firm till August 5. The accused, who have been lodged in the Chanchalguda jail, were produced before the magistrate.
The Fourteenth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate has granted permission to the Enforcement Directorate, a central government wing, to record the statements of the accused in the Satyam scam from June 9 to 16.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday obtained specimen signatures of former Satyam Computer chairman B Ramalinga Raju and four others accused in connection with the multi-crore rupee fraud in the IT company.
A local court in Hyderabad on Tuesday allowed the CBI to obtain specimen signatures and handwriting of former Satyam chairman B Ramalinga Raju and four other accused in the Satyam fraud case, all of whom are now in the Chanchalguda jail.
The 6th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on Monday reserved his order for Tuesday on the police custody of PwC representatives S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas.
Dismissing the petitions of former Price Waterhouse auditors -- S Gopalkrishnan and Talluri Srinivas who sought defreezing of their bank accounts, special judge BVLN Chakravarti considered CBI's contention that further investigations is pending in the case at this stage.
A local court in Hyderabad dismissed the bail petitions of S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas, former partners of auditing firm Price Waterhouse, who are in judicial remand in the Rs 7,800-crore Satyam fraud case.
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