In the Amaravati Inner Ring Road case, Lokesh appears before the CID.
Tuesday, Nara Lokesh showed up to be questioned in the Amaravati Inner Ring Road alignment matter by the Crime Investigation Department.
Amaravati: General secretary of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Nara Lokesh, made an appearance before the Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday to be questioned on the case of the alignment of the Amaravati Inner Ring Road.
Lokesh arrived at the Tadepalli CID office prior to 10:00 a.m. It is expected that he will be questioned by CID officials until 5 p.m. On September 30, the TDP leader received a notice from the CID under section 41A of the Criminal Procedure Code, asking him to come before it on October 4.
Later, the Andhra Pradesh High Court ordered the CID to reschedule Lokesh’s interrogation for October 10 in response to a petition filed by him.
In addition to ordering that a lawyer be permitted, the court had directed the TDP general secretary to appear before the CID officer that day for questioning from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. On September 26, the CID submitted a letter to the Vijayawada ACB Court designating Lokesh as the fourteenth accused in the case. Later on in the case, Lokesh had petitioned the Andhra Pradesh High Court for anticipatory bail.
The CID told the court during the hearing that Lokesh will receive a notice from them in accordance with Section 41A of the Criminal Procedure Code. The TDP leader was instructed to assist with the inquiry, but the court dismissed his plea as the arrest was not made in the case.
The son of former chief minister and TDP leader N. Chandrababu Naidu, who is currently detained in connection with the Skill Development scandal, is Lokesh.
Naidu has already been charged by the CID in the AP FiberNet and Amaravati Inner Ring Road cases, and petitions for a Prisoner Transit (PT) warrant have been filed against him before the Vijayawada ACB Court. The CID filed a formal complaint in May 2022 on alleged irregularities in the building of an internal ring road in Amaravati against Chandrababu Naidu, Heritage Foods Ltd., and former municipal administration minister Dr. P. Narayana.
A. Rama Krishna Reddy, a Mangalgiri MLA for the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), made a complaint, which served as the basis for the FIR. Between 2014 and 2019, it was claimed that high-ranking government officials engaged in illicit and corrupt actions related to the master plan design of the Andhra Pradesh capital and the ring road alignment, with the intention of causing undue benefit to specific persons. The family of Chandrababu Naidu owns Heritage Foods.
