Senior YSR Congress party leader and former chief minister N T Rama Rao’s widow Nandamuri Lakshmi Parvathi received a setback in the Supreme Court on Friday, when it struck down her petition seeking for an inquiry into alleged illegal assets of Telugu Desam Party president N Lakshmi Parvathi.
A division bench of Supreme Court comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Bela Trivedi refused to entertain a special leave petition filed by Lakshmi Parvathi challenging the high court order which had earlier dismissed her plea for a probe into Naidu’s assets.
While refusing to take up the petition, the Supreme Court questioned Lakshmi Parvathi’s locus standi in asking for a probe into Naidu’s assets.
When she said she was seeking the probe in the capacity of wife of former chief minister N T Rama Rao, the SC bench wondered whether being NTR’s widow would give her any additional qualification to ask for a probe.
“Who are you to ask for the details of somebody else’s assets? Where is the need for anybody to know anybody’s assets? The high court has gone into all the issues and struck down your petition which has no merit,” the SC bench said.
In May, 2021, an ACB special court in Hyderabad dismissed the disproportionate assets case filed by Lakshmi Parvathi against Naidu, on the similar grounds.
The judge then said there was not enough evidence to prove the allegations that Naidu had amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income during the time when was CM of the state.
Parvathi had complained to the ACB court in 2005 about the disproportionate assets of Naidu which was taken up for hearing and later the same was stayed by the High Court following Naidu's petition against it.
Later, the high court, too, dismissed her plea in December 2021.
