CBI frames charges against Yadav Singh

GHAZIABAD: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ghaziabad on Friday framed charges against Yadav Singh, the suspended chief engineer of the Noida and Greater Noida authorities, four of his family members, three companies and a trust in a disproportionate assets case estimated to be around ₹23 crore.

CBI senior public prosecutor BK Singh said the court framed the charges against the accused persons under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and sections 120 of the IPC (concealing design to commit offence) read with Section 109 (punishment of abetment if the act abetted is committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment). “The charges were framed against Yadav Singh, his son, two daughters and daughter-in-law in the disproportionate assets case. Charges were also framed against three companies and a trust. Yadav Singh’s wife has not appeared before the court in any of the cases hence the file has been separated. The high court has directed for dayto-day hearings in the case,” BK Singh said.

He added that charges were not framed against his accountant Mohan Lal Rathi as Rathi has become an approver in the case.

On the directions of the Allahabad high court, the CBI had lodged a disproportionate assets case against the accused in August 2015. It was alleged that Yadav Singh, along with his family members and associates, amassed large amounts of movable and immovable assets, from 2009 to 2014, which were allegedly disproportionate to his known sources of income.

It was also alleged that in November, 2014, several incriminating documents, including income-tax returns were allegedly recovered during searches conducted by other agencies at several premises of the accused.