Observing that the High Court, in the regular bail order of former chief minister, Chandrababu Naidu, has pointed out several lapses which generally are raised in the final order, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and TDP MLA, Payyavula Kesav, here on Monday felt that the comments made by the High Court are a slap on the face of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) and the State Government.
Kesav told media persons here that the comments made by the High Court while granting the regular bail to Chandrababu are certainly a serious blow to both the CID and the YSRP Government who have been making cheap comments and baseless allegations against Chandrababu. “If the CIG and the State Government should feel ashamed for the comments made by the High Court while granting the regular bail to Chandrababu,” he remarked.
How whatever they see and imagine can be included in the case, Kesav asked both the CID and the State Government. Pointing out that the court has completely dismissed whatever the CID and the State Government have been claiming since beginning in the Skill Development case, the PAC Chairman said that despite questioning several witnesses and gathering upmteen documents, they could not gather even a single evidence that the Skill Development Corporation has suffered even a single rupee loss.
The court has come to a conclusion that they could not prove the charges and the comments made by the court prove beyond doubt that the cases have been registered only with political vendetta, Kesav remarked. Even on the forensic audit too, the court clearly felt that ‘is not agreed upon’ and ‘can not be relied upon,’ he observed.
The High Court questioned the petitioners how the then state government is responsible if someone at sometime failed to pay the taxes, he pointed out. Initially, they alleged Rs 3,000 cr corruption in the case, later brought it down to Rs 300 cr and then Rs 27 cr but finally to Rs 14 cr to Rs 15 cr, he added.
Even if the CID and the State Government utter blatant lies holding media conferences at several places, finally they have to produce evidence before the courts, Kesav said. They have made every attempt to make people believe that initially the Income Tax department has confirmed the money trial, later they said that the auditors of Pune finalised it and then passed it on to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), he said.
They finally tried to convert the donations given to the TDP as kickbacks and here too they got humiliated, Kesav noted. The PAC Chairman asked how advisor to the Governemnt, Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, can claim that they have forgotten to produce the evidence before the court.
