The Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department (AP CID) has named Telugu Desam Party national president and former Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu in the alleged Amaravati capital city Inner Ring Road (IRR) alignment violations case, when he is already facing a legal issue and is under 14-day judicial remand in a case related to alleged scam in Skill Development programme.
The prime allegations levelled against Mr. Naidu are that he played a crucial role in appointing a Master Planner of Amaravati on nomination basis when he was Chief Minister between 2014 and 2019, IRR was aligned to permit the appreciation in values of the land banks of Heritage Foods, Lingamaneni and Narayana educational institutions, and Seed Capital area was decided based on the land bank of P. Narayana and others affiliated to TDP, according to the confidential information obtained by The Hindu from the investigation agency — CID.
The CID has named Mr. Naidu as the prime accused in the case, while the others, including P. Narayana, the then Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development, Lingamaneni Ramesh and Lingamaneni Venkata Surya Rajasekhar of Lingamaneni group of companies, K.P.V. Anjani Kumar of Rama Krishna Housing Ltd., Nara Lokesh, TDP general secretary and son of Mr. Naidu, their family owned company Heritage Foods Pvt Ltd as other accused individuals and institutions in it. A case was registered by the investigation agency as Cr.No.16/2022 U/s 120(B), 409, 420, 34, 35, 37, 166, 167, 217 IPC & Sec. 13(2) r/w 13(1) (c) & (d) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 of CID Police Station, Mangalagiri.
