PNS|Vijayawada
The Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department (AP CID) teams conducted searches on the premises of the residences of the daughters of TDP leader P Narayana in the alleged Amaravati assigned land scam.
The AP CID searched the residences of Puneeth Kothapa and Ponguru Sindhura, Indira, and Sharani in connection with the alleged purchase of lands and money routing by the TDP leader and his relatives in the Amaravati Capital Lands area.
P Narayana, the then Minister for MA&UD Dept, played a key role in preparing the Master Plan of the Capital city/Seed Capital area by guiding the Master Planner M/s Surbana Jurong, owing to his position as the Vice-Chairman of the APCRDA and as Minister MA&UD Dept.
By using his position in the High-Level Committee, Narayana could select the particular 6.84 sq. km of land to be ring-fenced as ‘Seed Area.’
Using the prior privileged information about the location of the Start-up Area, he purchased acres 65.50 ½ cents of agricultural lands through benami transactions, located in and around the Start-up area during June, July, and August 2015, i.e., for Rs 4.23 crore in the name of Avula Muni Shankar (who is the cousin of P.Ramadevi, w/o .P.Narayana), Potturi Prameela who is an employee of M/s NSPIRA Management Services Pvt. Ltd., (managed by Puneeth Kothapa who is the son-in-law of P.Narayana and P.Sindhura, daughter of P.Narayana) Rapuru Sambasiva Rao who is the brother of P.Ramadevi, and Varun Kumar Kothapa who is the brother of Puneeth Kothapa.
Bulk deposits and transfers of funds were made into the accounts of Potturi Prameela, Avula Muni Shankar, and Rapuru Sambasiva Rao just prior to the purchase of those lands and lands were purchased in their names as the benamis of P.Narayana.
It is alleged that changes were made in the alignment of Inner Ring Road, while designing the alignment of the Inner Ring Road (Eastern By-pass segment for Vijayawada. Narayana personally directed the designing consultant to arbitrarily shift the alignment of the IRR, 2 to 3 km away from the 100 feet road from Tadigadapa to Enikepadu , closer to seven of the campuses of Narayana Educational Institutions. He also got changes in the IRR made for the benefit of Lingamaneni Group and Heritage Foods Pvt. Ltd. P Narayana, his family members and relatives illegally purchased 148 acres of assigned lands in Amaravati capital city.
Through Narayana Education Society, Narayana Learning Pvt Ltd and Ramanarayana Trust, Rs 17.5 crore was allegedly channelised into the bank account of M/S Ramakrishna Housing Private Ltd. P Subrahmanyam, Puneeth Kothappa, Ponguru Sindhura, Ponguru (Ghanta) Sharani, P Rama Devi and P Indira are the family members of Narayana who were the authorised signatories for the bank accounts of the above entities.
The money was then allegedly routed into the bank accounts of the employees of M/s Ramakrishna Housing Pvt Ltd, headed by KPV Anjani Kumar and payments were made to the farmers of the assigned lands. The farmers of the assigned lands were placed under stress by making them believe that the government would resume the assigned lands without paying any compensation and the sale agreements were made in the names of the relatives of Narayana, acting as the benamis.
