Chandrababu Naidu Files Plea Against Case Over Amaravati Land Scam
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The CID served has notices to Chandrababu Naidu and P Narayana asking them to appear before the investigating officer at its regional office in Vijayawada later this month.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu and former minister P Narayana have filed petitions in the Andhra Pradesh High Court seeking quashing of the First Information Report filed by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) against them in the Amaravati Land Scam case. The High Court is expected to list the petition for hearing on Friday, legal sources said. The case was filed on March 12 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including criminal conspiracy, and also the SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Section 7 of AP Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfer) Act, 1977 was also invoked in the case. The CID's report was based on a complaint filed by YSRC MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy on February 24, more than a month after the High Court struck down a case pertaining to "insider trading" in the Amaravati land scam.More Related News