The Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy said that the erstwhile IAS officer Sri Lakshmi had given her no information regarding the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case, then. This was said by the HM as revealed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in its charge sheet. The agency investigating the mining discrepancies in the OMC case had been questioning number of dignitaries. Ms. Sabita, who was then the Minister for Mining, was listed as witness number 8. On being questioned about the discrepancies, she said that she had not been informed about the discrepancies by the concerned officers.

The Home Minister also added that she had signed the documents as a routine and was not informed about the details. She also informed that she had expressed her dissent over GO no 152, by which 25 hectares were sanctioned to OMC.

The CBI had in December, 2011 filed the186-page charge sheet against former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, B V Srinivasa Reddy, Managing Director OMCPl, V D Rajagopal, the then Director, Mines and Geology, Andhra Pradesh government; and late R Linga Reddy, the then Assistant Director Mines, and Geology, Anantapur. However, the CBI had not mentioned the name of Srilakshmi in the charge sheet, as the agency needed permission from the Centre and the collection of evidence against her was in progress. But in the last week of March CBI filed an additional charge sheet naming former Andhra Pradesh Secretary of Industries In-charge Mines, Y Srilakshmi, in the OMC case.