The Andhra Pradesh high court granted regular bail to Chandrababu Naidu on Monday in the skill development case, according to ANI. Until November 28, the Telugu Desam Party chief is free on temporary bail. For medical reasons, the high court on October 31 granted the former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh an interim bail of four weeks.

He was remanded to judicial custody by the Special Court for the ACB cases in Vijayawada and had been housed in the Rajahmundry Central Prison since September 10, one day after being arrested by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in connection with the multi-crore skill development corporation scam.The CID opened an investigation into an alleged ₹3,300 crore scam in the APSSDC during the previous TDP government in March of this year.

Three IAS officers' depositions and the remarks of an accused who later became an approver served as the basis for notices sent to Arja Srikanth, a former Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officer and CEO of APSSDC in 2016, initiating the investigation.

When Naidu was the chief minister, the APSSDC was established in 2016 to give jobless youth skill training to improve their employability.

A ₹3,300 crore project had a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the Naidu government. A consortium comprising Siemens Industry Software India Ltd and Design Tech Systems Pvt Ltd was requested under the terms of the MoU to establish six centers of excellence for skill development.

The Andhra government was expected to pay about ten percent of the project's overall cost through grants-in-aid from Siemens and Design Tech.

The CID investigation claims that the project was started without adhering to the established tendering procedure. The CID claimed that the cabinet had not given the project approval.