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SC dismisses plea to stop investigations against Chandrababu Naidu

By : Guest on 24 November 2011

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The petitioners wanted the apex court to restrain the Andhra Pradesh high court’s order to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Enforcement Directorate and state police to probe allegations that Naidu possessed assets disproportionate to his income

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea that sought to stop an investigation into the assets of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Telugu Desam Party (TD) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu.

Eenadu Group owner Ramoji Rao, TPD member of Parliament Nama Nageshwar Rao and C.M. Ramesh, a senior TDP leader, filed the petition in the Supreme Court. They contended that the high court’s order was not valid as it did not give Naidu a chance to be heard.

The high court had passed an ex parte order last week on a petition filed by Y.S. Vijaya Reddy, wife of late Congress leader and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy.

“As a court of civil procedure they should show reason for passing an ex parte order. They have not even done that,” said senior advocate Anil Divan, who appeared for the petitioners.

A bench comprising justices Dalveer Bhandari, T.S. Thakur and Dipak Mishra rejected the petition on the grounds that it was premature for the apex court to interfere at this stage.

“This court is not inclined to interfere with the high court’s order. Petitioners are at liberty to return io HC for vacation of order. We direct the HC to hear the matter within 15 days,” said the court’s order.

Nikhil Kanekal

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P.Narender Reddy

Wrote on 04 January 2012

The Apex court's decision is really praiseworthy,when babu was CM the govt employees were subjected to harass by ACB and he was very adamant to prosecute them.That govt never bothered about the service rules, the mandatory duty of higher officials to implement the service rules wre totally ignored, just for not submitting annual property returns the employees were booked cases of disproportionate of assets cases and prosecuted though the property was legal.Then why Mr.Babu is fearing for prosecution when his mother is an assessee since last 40 or 50 years.In case the investigating agencies are going to book the cases and investigate like against govt employees most of our leaders will be behind bars.It has become fashion of the critics and some people corruption means only govt emloyees,thanks to judiciary for exposing the corruption of many people who were in higher posts and one would wonder if the worth of all cases booked against employees put together since independence except Ketan Desai former MCI chairman is not going to 10% of our beloved leaders illgotten money discovered by CBI.