Mining scam: CBI lens on Akhilesh
New Delhi: In a fresh trouble for Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, the CBI is contemplating seeking clarification from him in connection with the agency’s fresh FIR registered on Monday to probe alleged illegal sand mining in Saharanpur.
In a fresh trouble for Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav, the CBI is contemplating seeking clarification from him in connection with the agency’s fresh FIR registered on Monday to probe the alleged illegal sand mining in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Mr Yadav, who was the chief minister of the state between 2012 and 2017, held the mining portfolio during 2012-13.
The CBI has booked 12 people, including two senior IAS officers serving as secretaries in the UP government.
“There are allegations these bureaucrats, in conspiracy with other accused, allowed illegal mining of minor minerals in UP’s Saharanpur and Hamirpur districts during 2012-17. Mr Yadav, the then mining minister had allegedly cleared 14 leases pertaining to mining in the state, of which 13 were cleared on February 17, 2013, in violation of the e-tendering process,” sources said.
After interrogating accused bureaucrats, the agency will certainly seek clarification from the then mining minister (Mr Yadav), they added. The CBI on Tuesday conducted searches in Uttarakhand and UP after registering the fresh FIR. Lucknow, Oct. 2: A special 36-hour session in both the houses of the Uttar Pradesh legislature to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary began on Wednesday amid boycott by the Opposition prompting chief minister Yogi Adityanath to say that this is not only an “insult” to the Father of the Nation but also a “contempt” of the House.
Setting the proceedings in motion, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Hriday Narain Dixit said such a session was never held in parliamentary history. “It’s unfortunate that opposition leaders, who agreed for the session, are not present. Probably they did not remember that they had given consent for the session,” he said.
Only members of the BJP and its ally Apna Dal were present. The simultaneous sessions of the Assembly and Legislative Council begun at 11 am and will continue till Thursday night without a break.