From the day of becoming Chief Minister of the state YS Jaganmohan Reddy had started attempts to arrest TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in one or other case. He has reportedly given tasks to some confident police officers to foist false cases against him.
Finally, he was arrested last year by AP CID in a Skill Development case and kept in Rajahmundry prison for about 53 days. Chandrababu was forced to resort to a big legal battle as the government started foisting one after another case against him so as to keep him in jail for a longer period.
Now, it is revealed that the government attempted to arrest him three and half years ago in the Ramatheertha idol vandalism case in Vizianagaram district. In December, 2020 the government handed over the case to the AP CID.
Efforts were made to implicate Chandrababu Naidu as an accused in the case of Ram idol destruction in Vizianagaram district. On 29th December 2020 some miscreants vandalized the idol of Kodandaram in Ramatheertha of Vizianagaram district. This has created a political uproar. Hindu communities took up agitation on a large scale branding YCP as anti- Hindu.
After the state government handed over this case to the CID. Though CID failed to find any clues and Vizianagaram police arrested some suspects, an influential YCP leader has reportedly brought pressure on police to arrest Chandrababu in the case, making him a key conspirator. However, Visakha range police officials refused to implicate the former chief minister in the case. As a result all those officials were harassed later by the government.
On the other hand, YCP government harassed senior IPS officer Santosh Mehra, who had returned from central services with a brilliant career expecting that he would be appointed as DGP, was harassed as he did not accept to a condition of filing false cases against Chandrababu Naidu, so that to arrest him.
He has reportedly met Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy and claimed that he is qualified to be appointed as DGP. But bluntly said `only our person’ will be the DGP. But promising him to give a key post on two conditions.
First a case should be built up against senior IPS AB Venkateswara Rao, so that to dismiss him from service and foist false cases against Chandrababu Naidu so that to arrest him. As Mehra refused to oblige, he was sidelined and also `Eleven 17; a special scale granted by the Union Home Ministry on the basis of his merit was demoted.
Even after he got orders against this mischief from the court and also from the union home ministry, it was revived only after his retirement in March, 2023.
