The Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department, in a statement on January 16, said that the “Supreme Court refused to quash the First Information Report (FIR) registered against former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in the alleged skill development scam case.”
“The Supreme Court Bench, comprising Justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M. Trivedi, has upheld the remand order passed by the Special Court for ACB Cases and the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s decision to dismiss the quash plea of Mr. Naidu,” the legal cell of the CID said in the statement.
The Judges differed on the interpretation of Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, which makes prior sanction of the appointing authority mandatory for prosecution of public servants, the statement said.
