HC to hear Naidu's bail plea on Amaravati IRR case on September 29

Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh High Court held a hearing on the Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu’s bail plea in the case of irregularities in alignment of the Amaravati Inner Ring Road on Wednesday and adjourned the case for Friday.

Advocate-General S. Sriram appearing for AP-CID argued that the bail plea was not having the eligibility for consideration and said, “As the accused is already in judicial remand in the AP skill development scam, it cannot be considered that he was under arrest in (relation to) this bail petition.”

AG pointed out that the PT warrant petition filed by the CID in the same case was pending in the ACB court and ruled out any chance for filing a bail petition in the high court even without getting any decision from the trial court (ACB court).

He submitted that though Naidu knew that he was the first accused in the IRR case, he did not apply for anticipatory bail.

AG argued that Section 146 of the CRDA Act, to give exemption for officials from prosecution for their decisions, was not applicable to Naidu. “Naidu failed to act properly on the IRR alignment project. It was allotted on nomination basis at the behest of Naidu.”

Notably, based on a complaint lodged by YSR Congress MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy, the AP-CID booked the case on May 9, 2022.

Meanwhile, TD national general-secretary Nara Lokesh filed a petition in the high court for anticipatory bail, as he is named by the CID as the 14th accused in the case, while it submitted a memo in the ACB court.