Hyderabad: The President has given assent to the Andhra Pradesh Special Courts Act, 2015 (Andhra Pradesh Act No.16), which was enacted to recover the ill-gotten assets of public servants.
It is a much-awaited Act in the backdrop of the Telugu Desam government’s claim particularly Chief Minster N. Chandrababu Naidu’s, to take over the attached properties of YSR Congress leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, including his Sakshi Media House which is under attachment by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The Special Courts Act was first enacted in 2006 by Odisha and then Bihar to attach properties of government servants involved in disproportionate assets cases with an intent to see that the beneficiaries of ill-gotten property or money do not enjoy the property or money during trial.
