The Supreme Court is likely to take a final call on the special leave petition by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh challenging the state high court order stalling probe into Amaravati land scam.
According to reports in Delhi, a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan will hear the SLP filed by the state government in September defending the SIT probe into the land scam.
In November 2020, SC also issued notices to Telugu Desam Party leaders Varla Ramaiah and Alapati Raja, who challenged the formation of the SIT pursuant to which the high court stayed the government orders setting up the SIT.
The SC, however, dismissed the gag order issued by the state high court preventing the media from publishing the contents of the FIR filed against former advocate general Dammalapati Srinivas and 12 others including the daughters of a sitting Supreme Court judge.
In its SLP, the Jagan government submitted that the impugned order was passed on a petition in which the FIR was not even questioned and sought to know if an investigation can be stayed in such a case, that too “at the very threshold of investigation.”
It argued that an investigation should not be shut out at the threshold because a political opponent or a person with political difference raises an allegation of commission of offence.
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