AP CID questions Nara Lokesh, Ex Minister Narayana’s Son-in-law

Nara Lokesh, the national general-secretary of Telugu Desam, was summoned by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) for a second consecutive day on Wednesday for questioning in the Amaravati Inner Ring Road alignment case.

Following a lengthy session of six-and-a-half hours on Tuesday, Lokesh arrived at the CID office in Tadepalli on Wednesday morning for further inquiries.

The questioning continued for an additional six hours.Commencing at 10 am and concluding at 5 pm, the interrogation centered on Lokesh as Accused-14 in the IRR case.

The CID team inquired about various aspects, including the alteration of IRR alignment, Lokeshs prompt inclusion in the Cabinet sub-committee upon becoming a minister in Naidu’s government, the rationale behind changing the IRR alignment to favor the lands of then-minister Ponguru Narayana, Lokeshs involvement in the decision to significantly increase compensations for land acquisitions related to the IRR project, the circumstances regarding the complimentary use of the guesthouse by Lingamaneni Ramesh, and why the IRR alignment favored the lands of Heritage and Lingamaneni estates.Lokesh provided responses to several queries while avoiding others, asserting that he had no involvement in those particular matters.

The AP CID also questioned Ponguru Narayana’s son-in-law Puneeth at its office.They questioned Puneeth for five hours and summoned him for questioning again on Thursday.

After the CID’s questioning, Lokesh spoke to the media.He said though the AP High Court had directed the CID to conduct an inquiry for one day, he attended the questioning for the second day as per instructions from the officials.

As many as 47 questions were asked on the second day."The same questions were asked on the first day also," Lokesh said.Lokesh said the officials showed the IT documents of his mother Bhuvaneswari and asked about the details, to which he replied to them to rather ask Bhuvaneswari’s auditor.

He asked the CID how they got the IT returns of Bhuvaneswari, for which CID had no answer."Only four or five questions were asked regarding the Inner Ring Road case and the other questions were about other departments during the TDP rule.

About these, I do not possess any knowledge," Lokesh said.Lokesh said his time was wasted unnecessarily for two days in the name of questioning over the alleged Inner Ring Road scam, "while this road does not exist, it has not been laid and the land acquisition has not been done.

" Speaking about the skill development case, Lokesh said two officials, L.Premchandra Reddy and Ajeya Kallam, who did the process and signed the papers, were not investigated but Chandrababu Naidu, who framed the policy, was sent in remand.Later Lokesh flew to Delhi to look after the matters relating to Naidu’s case in the Supreme Court.