Hyderabad:
The CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry case against former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and 12 others to probe alleged disproportionate assets amassed by Mr Naidu.
This follows a directive of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on November 14.
The High Court order came on a petition of YS Vijayamma, widow of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
The Supreme Court had, on November 23, refused to stay the CBI probe into alleged disproportionate assets of Mr Naidu but granted him liberty to approach the High Court for modification or vacation of its interim order.
A three-judge bench of justices Dalveer Bhandari, T S Thakur and Dipak Mishra, while declining to stay or grant status quo, requested the High Court to dispose off within 15 days the application, if any, moved by Mr Naidu and others for modification/vacating the November 14 interim order of the High Court.
"We are not inclined to interfere with the High Court order. The petitioners are granted liberty to move the High Court for modification or vacating the interim order," the Supreme Court had said.
The counsel for Mr Naidu had submitted to the Supreme Court that the direction by the High Court was in "violation" of the top court's earlier rulings that no such order can be passed without giving an opportunity to the other side.
(With PTI inputs)