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Justice Venkata Jyothirmai Pratapa connected Wednesday reserved the verdict successful the writ petition filed by the erstwhile MLA, Alla Ramakrishna Reddy, for handing implicit the Amaravati Internal Ring Road (IRR) scam lawsuit registered successful 2022 to the CBI.
N. Chandrababu Naidu, who was astatine that clip Leader of the Opposition, is 1 of the premier accused successful the case.
Justice Jyothirmai heard the main plea, which was to transportation the lawsuit from the CID to CBI, on with 2 different connected petitions, including 1 for cancelling the interim bail antecedently fixed to Mr. Naidu, and reserved the judgement successful each of them.
Appearing for the petitioner, advocator Jada Sravan Kumar argued that the lawsuit should beryllium assigned to the CBI arsenic a just probe was not imaginable due to the fact that the probe officers were efficaciously moving nether Mr. Naidu, who is the contiguous Chief Minister.
He objected to the closing of the lawsuit aft the authorities changed successful June 2024 connected the crushed of “mistake of fact”, and that Mr. Naidu violated the bail conditions.
Senior advocator Mukul Rohatgi insisted that the petition for transferring the lawsuit to CBI was not maintainable arsenic a “mistake of fact” study had already been filed successful the Vijayawada ACB Court and the State constabulary (CID) were doing an impartial investigation.
He contended that Mr. Ramakrishna Reddy’s petition was politically motivated and had nary merits that warranted the conceding of his plea.
