Andhra Pradesh News: Chandrababu Naidu sent to 14-day judicial custody in alleged multi-crore corruption case

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Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu gets 14 days judicial custody till 23 September in connection to the multi-crore corruption case. Chandrababu Naidu was presented in ACB Court on Sunday, which pronounced the verdict in the Skill Development Corporation Scam.

Naidu, who was arrested in the early hours of Saturday, was produced in the ACB Court in Vijayawada on Sunday morning around 6 am. Naidu was arrested in a pre-dawn operation on Saturday at Nandyala for his alleged role in the multi-crore Skill Development Corporation scam.

Officers knocked on the door of his caravan in which he was sleeping and picked him up. The former CM was arrested by the CID around 6 am on Saturday from a marriage hall (outside which his caravan was parked) at Gnanapuram in Nandyala.

The former CM was arrested by the CID around 6 am on Saturday from a marriage hall (outside which his caravan was parked) at Gnanapuram in Nandyal. The CID chief N Sanjay had said Naidu was the principal conspirator in the case.

The Crime Investigation Department which arrested TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu in the skill development corporation scam case named the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister as Accused 37 (A37) in the case. According to the remand report submitted to the court, the CID said Naidu was non-cooperative during interrogation and replied vaguely saying that he did not remember certain issues.