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Supreme Court Upholds Quashing of Amaravati Land Pooling Case
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s decision to quash a 2021 criminal case against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and Ponguru Narayana over…
The Story in Brief
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s decision to quash a 2021 criminal case against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and Ponguru Narayana over alleged irregularities in the Amaravati land pooling scheme.
The court refused to interfere with the High Court order. The decision offers legal relief to Naidu and Narayana, while weakening the case pursued during the previous YCP administration. However, the ruling concerns the challenge to the quashing of the criminal case. It does not certify that every allegation about the land pooling process was false or that the entire scheme was completely transparent. The controversy is likely to remain a political issue in Andhra Pradesh.
The Indian Opinion
The easy narrative that the ruling proves the Amaravati scheme was entirely clean goes beyond what the court decided. The opposite claim, that the dismissal has no bearing on the case, is also misleading. The judgment settles the criminal proceedings covered by the High Court order, not every question about land acquisition or administration. The useful test is whether future audits, records or proceedings identify specific wrongdoing rather than repeat broad political charges.
Source: m9.news
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