Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu is planning to move the AP High Court to stop the preliminary CBI investigation it has ordered against him for allegedly amassing illegal wealth and favouring organisations and individuals during his tenure as Chief Minister. He has also postponed his Rythu Poru Bata padayatra programme in Adilabad and Nizamabad districts on Saturday and Sunday after the police sounded a high-alert following the shooting of top Maoist Kishenji in West Bengal.

Sources in the TD reve-aled that senior party leaders urged Mr Naidu to approach the High Court because many of the allegations levelled by Vijayalak-shmi, wife of Y.S. Rajasek-har Reddy, have been dealt with by the High Court, House Committees and other inquiries, and some of them were dismissed.

“Mr Naidu seems to agree with the viewpoint of sen-ior party leaders that he did not get natural justice to prove his innocence. Init-ially, he was reluctant but finally agreed to move the High Court, most probably on Monday,” a senior TD leader told this newspaper.

Mr Naidu did not appro-ach the Supreme Court and instead preferred to wait for orders on the appeals filed by Ramoji Rao, C.M. Ramesh and Nama Nagesw-ara Rao, MP, who are also facing the CBI probe. But a Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Dalveer Bhandari, Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Dipak Misra dismissed the special leave petitions filed by the three and directed them to approach the High Court.
Ushodaya Enterprises ow-ned by Mr Ramoji Rao has already moved the High Court, while the other two did so on Saturday. Mr Naidu may move the court on Monday.

DC