Yamuna authority DGM held over ‘false’ case
The deputy general manager of the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA), AK Singh, was arrested on Monday for allegedly for making false claims of corruption against top officials.
Singh was arrested on the orders of Meerut divisional commissioner Dr Prabhat Kumar, who holds the additional charge of YEIDA chairman.
Singh was arrested from the administrative building of YEIDA in Greater Noida.
“I got him arrested because he filed false complaints against me and other officials, including industries minister Satish Mahana. We had filed a complaint and an FIR was lodged. During the probe, it was revealed that AK Singh was behind the false com- plaints,” said Kumar.
In the complaints addressed to chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Singh had said an official of general manager rank was being transferred from Muzaffarnagar to Greater Noida for a bribe of Rs50 lakh, sources said.
According to the complaints, UP industry minister Satish Mahana, principal secretary industrial development Alok Sinha and Meerut commissioner Prabhat Kumar were allegedly involved in transferring an official for a ‘bribe’.
The CM ordered a probe, which revealed all complaints were false and did not have any evidence to prove the allegations.
Prabhat Kumar on August 11 filed an FIR against unidentified persons in Greater Noida’s Kasna police station.
“It was revealed in the probe that the complainants were fake as all the addresses in the complaints could not be found. The probe established that Singh got these complaints filed so that he stays in his post and is not transferred,” said Kumar.
Singh was looking infrastructure projects such as roads, affordable housing and park development in urban areas being developed along the Yamuna Expressway.
The police reached the authority office around 2pm, when Singh was in the chairman’s office. “I called the police and got him arrested because he was involved in wrongdoing,” said Kumar.
Satya Prakash, sub-inspector, Kasna police station, said,“We arrested AK Singh in connection with an FIR lodged on August 11 against unidentified persons. In the FIR, it was alleged that a fake corruption case was filed against top officials. We are questioning AK Singh in the Kasna police station.”
“Ashish Kumar Singh, DGM of Yamuna Authority, during questioning admitted that he along with a typist Vijay Gautam and fourth grade employee Shashi Prasad Singh had filed a complaint through online to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath about a fake corruption case against chairman Prabhat Kumar. AK Singh admitted that he filed this complaint in Yamuna Authority office,” said station house officer, Kasna police station.