Remember the words – “mana vallu briefed me” (our people briefed me) of Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, whose voice was confirmed by the private forensic labs in the cash-for-vote case involving his erstwhile protégé and present Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy?
Well, evidences established that it was at the behest of Naidu that Revanth Reddy tried to buy the vote of Anglo-Indian MLA Stephenson for the election of Vem Narender Reddy as MLA in June 2015, but Naidu’s direct involvement in the case could not proved in the high court.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court, too, gave a clean chit to Naidu in the cash-for-vote case, saying there was no merit in the petition of YSR Congress party former MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy seeking to name Naidu as the accused in the case.
A division bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice M M Sundaresh and Justice Aravind Kumar said there was no way it could interfere in the case, in which chargesheets were already filed by the police authorities probing the case.
The bench also dismissed the petition of Alla Ramakrishna Reddy requesting that the case be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation. The bench warned the YSRCP leader against using the judiciary to settle political scores.
Asking Ramakrishna Reddy not to file cases without any proper evidences, the Supreme Court bench said already two petitions were pending the apex court related to the cash-for-vote case.
“There is no reason to make Naidu an accused in the case,” the bench commented.
