In the 10 days since the revelation of the massive fraud at Satyam, there has been much speculation that the holes in the software company's books were caused by the promoters' links with Maytas, the infrastructure company that in recent years has become the favourite of the government of Andhra Pradesh. This article puts under the magnifying lens the award in 2008 of the massive Rs 12,000 crore contract to Maytas to build and operate the Hyderabad Metro.
