Hyderabad, Feb 3: The IAS Officers in the state are seriously concerned over the manner in which some of their colleagues were being subjected to witch-hunting by the CBI in the name of eliciting information with regard to various alleged scams.

While a delegation of the IAS Officers in the state are planning to meet the Chief Minister Mr. K. Kiran Kumar Reddy to appeal to him to stop the CBI authorities from mentally and physically harassing them in the name of investigations.

The All India Association of the IAS Officers, which had been in constant touch with the state IAS Officers Association, to appraise itself about the recent actions of the CBI in summoning, questioning, arresting and charge-sheeting even senior IAS Officers in the name of investigations is understood to be planning to go in a delegation to the Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh and represent him to prevent further humiliation and harassment of the bureaucrats.

Meanwhile the IAS Officers in the State numbering about 15 met at their association office in Begumpet and reviewed the situation in the wake of the CBI targeting their fraternity of late. It was decided that the future course of action to check further harassment would be decided at the general body meeting of the association to be held on Sunday.

The CBI officials for the second day today grilled the former Chief Secretary Mr. Ramakanth Reddy for nearly four hours. The investigating officials placed before him various files and documents which contained his signatures and questioned him about it,  specially with regard to land allocations and irrigation projects. He was specifically asked as to whether he had signed any papers and issued GOs under pressure or influence.

Mr. Ramakanth Reddy is understood to have informed the CBI officials that issues would be discussed by the Chief Minister and the concerned ministers, and only after the matter was cleared in the cabinet, the required GOs were issued. He was stated to have also made it clear that no irregularities were committed in land allotments.