Chandrababu Naidu is granted temporary bail by the Andhra Pradesh High Court due to medical reasons

In the AP Skill Development case, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday granted TDP chairman N Chandrababu Naidu provisional bail for a four-week term.

Naidu’s attorneys had told the judge that he need the money in order to get cataract surgery.

The panel ordered the former chief minister to appear before the superintendent of the central jail in Rajamahendravaram on or before November 28 after granting the temporary bail due to health concerns.

The court said in the judgment that it was “inclined to grant temporary bail on health grounds to the petitioner/A.37, enabling him to undergo the required surgery on his right eye, with a humanitarian perspective in mind and considering the petitioner’s health condition.”

It instructed Naidu to provide a bail bond for Rs. 1,000,000 along with two sureties of the same amount to the satisfaction of the Trial Court as part of the set of requirements.

The TDP head was also instructed to send the Central Prison Superintendent, when he turned himself in, a sealed cover with information on the medical care he received and the hospital where it was received.

“Any person familiar with the facts of the case shall not be directly or indirectly offered any inducement, threat, or promise to persuade him from disclosing such facts to the Court or any other authority,” the petition said.

The High Court said that it was its unwavering conviction that a patient in need of medical care ought to get prompt, efficient, and thorough care.

It also said that the patient should retain the option of selecting the medical institution for their care.

Naidu is now being held in Rajamahendravaram jail on charges of embezzling money from the Skill Development Corporation, causing the state exchequer to reportedly lose more than Rs 300 crore.

September 9 was the day of his arrest.

The standard bail petition was posted by the HC until November 10.