VIJAYAWADA: The Supreme Court on Monday made the earlier interim order absolute granting anticipatory bail to Ganti Venkata Satya Bhaskar Prasad, one of the accused in alleged skill development case. Former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu was arrested in the same case and presently out on interim bail. The Supreme Court reserved judgement in Naidu’s quash petition and is expected to give judgement this week.
Bhaskar was named as A-35 in the case by Crime Investigation Department (CID). Interestingly, Bhaskar was earlier arrested by the CID, but the trial court rejected to send him to remand by observing that section 409 of IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act would not apply to him. As remaining sections in the case prescribe less than seven years of punishment, the ACB court directed the CID to follow the provisions of 41A CrPC.
