Supreme court postpones AP's plea challenging Naidu's bail to January 19

Vijayawada: The Supreme Court has postponed a plea by Andhra Pradesh challenging the regular bail granted to Telugu Desam chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu in the skill development scam case to January 19.

A bench of Justices Bela Trivedi and Satish Sharma was hearing the state of AP's special leave petition challenging an order passed by the High Court granting regular bail to Naidu.

On Friday, in order to accommodate Chandrababu's request to file a counter-affidavit in response to the AP government's petition, the



bench deferred the hearing until Friday, January 19.

Senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Naidu, had told the court, "We'll put in a reply. The court may fix this sometime in January. If the judgment comes out, then fine, otherwise we'll go on with this matter."

Salve was referring to the earlier petition filed by Naidu, challenging the FIR against him in the skill development case, in which the judgment was reserved by the Supreme Court on October 17