Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N. Chandrababu Naidu on November 7 (Tuesday) filed a petition in the Andhra Pradesh High Court, seeking anticipatory bail in the sand mining case, in which he is held responsible for certain irregularities in the implementation of the ‘free sand policy’ that caused a substantial loss to the State exchequer during the TDP regime.
Peethala Sujatha, the then Minister for Mines and Geology has been named A-1 in the case followed by Mr. Naidu (A-2) and others including former Minister Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao and former MLA Chintamaneni Prabhakar.
Mr. Naidu, in his petition, contended that all decisions related to the sand policy were collectively taken by the then Cabinet and that he was being targeted selectively as a part of a ‘regime revenge’ plan.