The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday refused to grant bail to former chief minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu in connection with three different cases registered against him regarding corruption and riots.
The single-judge Bench of Justice K. Suresh Reddy dismissed the regular bail petitions filed by Naidu in connection with the Angallu violence case and the Inner Ring Road alignment change case, along with the anticipatory bail plea in the AP Fibernet Grid case.
It was alleged that the master plan of Amaravati capital city, alignment of the inner ring road and the seed capital were manipulated during Naidu’s regime, in order to provide undue enrichment to several companies.
The Angallu case pertained to the stone pelting, arson and riot incident, which took place during a political rally taken out by the TDP chief at Angallu in Annamayya district in August.
Naidu was also implicated in the FiberNet case, which alleged tender manipulation in allotting a work order under Phase-1 of the AP FiberNet Project of Rs 330 crore to a favoured company.
As per the Crime Investigation Department of Andhra Pradesh, irregularities took place from the allotting of the tender to completion of the total project, causing a huge loss to the state exchequer.
Naidu is currently under judicial remand in the Rajamahendravaram central prison in the Skill development Corporation scam case, which resulted in an alleged loss of over Rs 300 crore to the state exchequer.