Supreme Court To Hear Plea Against Stay On Probe Into Amaravati Land Scam

Tuesday, 13 July 2021Newsdesk

The Supreme Court Tuesday said it will hear on July 22 the plea of Andhra Pradesh government challenging the high court order which stayed SIT probe into alleged irregularities in the land deals in Amaravati during the previous TDP Regime. A bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari did not agree with the state government's submission that the matter be remanded back to the high court as investigation in the case has almost been stalled.

New Delhi, 13 July 2021

As per news report of NDTV, During the hearing, senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, appearing for the state, said the writ petition filed before the high court is an outcome of "regime revenge". If both parties agree that the matter should be heard here, then the court can apply its mind, the bench said. Dhavan said he was not in a position to say that the matter be heard here but on instructions, "I can say that it should be heard in the high court, at length as there are too many facts and case laws in the matter and, moreover, it is against the interim order". He said the state government has accepted most of the conditions in the writ petition filed before the high court by the state's former advocate general Dammalapati Srinivas such as, it is ready for a court monitored probe and no coercive action will be taken till the pendency of the plea.

Source -NDTV