The Allahabad High Court on Thursday ordered a CBI probe into the alleged corruption case involving Noida Chief Engineer Yadav Singh.
The Lucknow Bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice S.N. Shukla passed the order.
The petitioner had given details of Income Tax raids on Mr. Yadav’s establishments in Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad last year and alleged recovery of illegal properties and sought a CBI probe into the matter.
The State government counsel had opposed the PIL as not being maintainable and noted that the government had also constituted a judicial commission to probe the matter.
The petitioner has alleged that Mr. Singh had enjoyed plum postings under the regimes of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mayawati and incumbent Akhilesh Yadav, and the State government was not acting against him.
Raids conducted by the Income Tax Department have shown that Mr. Singh owned huge property disproportionate to his known sources of income.
He was involved in infrastructure projects such as Ganga water supply, sewage pipelines, drainage, hospitals, parks and the metro. In the electrical department, Mr. Singh had signed bonds of more than Rs. 500 crore in last nine years.
