Former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and former minister of municipal administration in the TDP government P.W. Narayan was relieved from the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday in the criminal proceedings initiated by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) for his alleged involvement. Land scam in Amravati, as High Court Justice C. Manvendranath Roy halted the investigation for four weeks.
After hearing arguments from the government by Additional Advocate General Jasti Nagabhushan, and senior advocates for the petitioners Siddharth Luthra and Dammalapathi Srinivas, Justice Roy said that they needed to find references to the immunities available to Mr. Naidu and Mr. Narayan. Under the AP Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) Act, 2014, taking cognizance of the fact that he was the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the CRDA who was entrusted with the overall task of development of the capital city at Vijayawada-Guntur. Area.
Advocates appearing for Shri Naidu and Shri Narayan argued that all official actions in pursuance of the CRDA Act enjoyed immunity under section 146 of the said Act. He insisted that the GO number 41 through which the Land Pooling Scheme (Formulation and Implementation) Rules, 2015, was notified, was put up for the post-facto approval of the former Chief Minister and he had no role in its implementation. .
Mr. Nagabhushan said as a person, Mr. Naidu G.O. Cannot dissolve his role in releasing 41 (dated February 17, 2016).
He said that the GO was definitely enforced and assigned to land, which would normally be resumed from the encroachers in terms of the AP Assigned Land (Prohibition of Prohibition) Act of 1977, clarifying the criteria The violation was taken under the pooling scheme. As a result of this the encroachers benefited and the state treasury suffered heavy losses, he observed.
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