No arrest for Chandrababu Naidu till Nov 9 in FiberNet scam

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday deferred a plea by former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu for anticipatory bail in the FiberNet scam case till November 9.

The top court orally said let the Andhra Pradesh government’s oral assurance against arrest continue till then.

Senior advocate Sidharth Luthra, for Naidu, asked a bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi to continue the interim protection from arrest for his client.

Luthra said, “I leave it to the court, otherwise, this plea will become infructuous”.