Even powerful chief ministers like Ramakrishna Hegde or Deve Gowda did not put their ministers through this kind of humiliation," the sources said.

The accused are Ramalinga Raju, his brother and Satyam's former managing director Rama Raju, ex-CFO V Srinivas, former partners of Price Waterhouse S Gopalakrishnan and T Srinivas along with Satyam Computer Services former employees G Ramakrishna, D Venkatapathi Raju and Ch Srisailam.

Research into these materials, coupled with advancements in micro- and nano-fabrication technology, has "opened the door to almost arbitrary material properties with some extraordinary consequences across the electromagnetic spectrum from radio frequencies to optical frequencies," according to Ramakrishna (physics, Indian Institute of Technology, India) and Grzegorczyk (Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US).