VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh police’s crime investigation department (CID) on Wednesday carried out searches on the residences and institutions of former minister and TDP leader
P Narayana in connection with the alleged land scam in Amaravati. It also served a notice to the TDP leader to appear before CID regional office in Vijayawada on March 22.
As CID could not find Narayana at his homes in Hyderabad and Nellore, it handed over the summons to his
wife Ramadevi
. The notice relates to alleged irregularities in assigned land parcels in Amaravati. Ex-AP CM N
Chandrababu Naidu
is accused number 1 and Narayana accused number 2.
Sources said the CID teams searched the former municipal administration minister’s institutions and residences after getting information that he was there. But after not finding him there, the team then took an acknowledgement from his wife and also a declaration that Narayana will be presenting himself before the investigating officer on March 22.
The FIR against the TDP chief Naidu and Narayana was registered on March 12 based on a complaint given by YSRC MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy on February 25, alleging irregularities in the assigned lands in Amaravati.
CID officials also pointed that a notice under Section 160 of CrPC was issued to Ramakrishna Reddy asking him to present any evidence he possesses on the allegations he had made. “It is only a procedural aspect and the CID did not conduct any raids as such. We went there to know if the former minister was present at any of his offices across Vijayawada, Hyderabad and Nellore,” a senior CID official said.
Ramakrishna, in his complaint, stated that he had received representation from a few residents of his constituency that “some influential persons of the then government cheated them by taking away their lands illegally”. The FIR states that the complainant (Ramakrishna) had verified the government orders issued by the then government and found several irregularities committed by the accused which caused ‘irreparable loss’ to SC and ST community and weaker sections.