HYDERABAD: Arguments concluded on Thursday in the petition filed by AP chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu challenging the order of the ACB court directing the investigating agency to probe his role in the cash-for-vote scam based upon a complaint lodged by YSRC MLA A Ramakrishna Reddy. In Sept this year, a single judge granted relief to Naidu by staying the order of the ACB court.
After hearing the counsels for Chandrababu Naidu, Ramakrishna Reddy and TS Anti-Corruption Bureau, Justice T Sunil Chowdary directed them to submit in written form the judgments cited by them during the marathon arguments in the case by Tuesday.
Senior counsel from Supreme Court Siddharth Luthra, appearing for Naidu, contended that there was no place for a third party (complainant YSRC MLA) to intervene in a criminal case. In fact, under Section 210 CrPC the MLA has no right to seek an order from the ACB court when the latter had taken cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the investigating agency in the case.
Concluding his arguments, the senior counsel strongly opposed the plea of former Congress MP and advocate Undavalli Arun Kumar to permit him to argue as an intervener in the quash petition by Naidu.