Supreme Court Decision: CBN’s Plea to Quash FIR Stands Denied

Supreme Court Decision: CBN’s Plea to Quash FIR Stands Denied

The Supreme Court on Monday refused the urgent petition filed by former Andhra Pradesh Minister Chandra Babu Naidu. He was seeking to dismiss the FIR filed by the Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department CID in connection with the Skill Development Scam Case, and he was also challenging the remand in the case. The oral mention will be made before the Indian Chief Justice for the urgent listing.

• The petition, which was filed by the former Chief CBN, is not on the list of oral mention matters for today. The CJI has refused to mention the CBN petition and asked the lawyer, Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra, to mention the CBN petition tomorrow. The oral mention will be made before the Indian Chief Justice for the urgent listing.

• Chandra Babu Naidu was arrested on September 8th, and the opposition has been curbed. The CJI has refused today to mention Chandrababu Naidu’s petition but said to his advocate Luthra to come tomorrow.

• Former AP Chief CBN filed a special petition in the Supreme Court on Saturday, and he challenged the judgment rendered by the Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissing his plea to dismiss the FIR.

• Telugu Desam Party leader CBN was arrested earlier this month, and he has been under custody since then. The FIR was registered by the AP CID in 2021 in the multi-crore scam in relation to the Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation.

• The arguments of the senior advocates, Harish Slave and Siddharth Luthra, on behalf of the CBN that the prior sanction as per Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act was necessary for the FIR were recently rejected by the single bench of Justice K. Sreenivas Reddy of the High Court.

The allegations that were made against the CBN regarding the scam of the documents and the misappropriation of the funds cannot be regarded as the discharge of the official duties, and hence the protection of Section 17A was not available. The CID found that the 140 witnesses had collected the documents regarding this case (4000). The High Court said that it could not interfere and dismissed the petition as devoid of merit.

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