Probe ordered into damage done by Akhilesh at official residence
Lucknow — The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a probe into the damages done in the residences of former chief ministers Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav before they were vacated over the weekend on directives of the Supreme Court, an official said on Monday.
“We have the inventory of these houses and they would be matched with whatever was there at the time the possession was taken back by the Rajya Sampatti Vibhaag .... after a detailed list of the missing items is prepared, notice would be issued and recoveries would be made,” a senior official said.
The matching of the items, including lights and other fixtures, would also be done at the residences of former chief ministers Kalyan Singh, Mayawati and Rajnath Singh, the official added.
Former chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who is critically ill and admitted at a Delhi hospital, however has not vacated his official residence and his wife has sought one year which has been rejected by the Estate Department. The extended deadline of June 3, given on compassionate grounds, is also over.
Rajya Sampatti Adhikari Yogesh Shukla said that anyone who has damaged government property will not be spared and recoveries will be done as per law.
An Estate Department team, which went on Saturday to the 4, Vikramditya Marg residence allocated to Akhilesh Yadav after he
Anyone who has damaged government property will not be spared and recoveries will be done as per law Yogesh Shukla, Rajya Sampatti Adhikari
left it, said the former chief minister had left the house, built under his watch at a cost of Rs 420 million, in bad shape.
Officials, accompanied with photographers, got the residence photographed extensively to show the damages done when the property was being vacated. Officials said that barring a marble temple in one corner of the house, the entire house had been damaged.
Expensive floor and wall tiles, lamination, and marble slabs have been damaged beyond repair and the electricity switch boards, switches have also been ripped off, said an official. All the air-conditioning ducts in the centrally airconditioned house, which was rebuilt and renovated by the then SP government at the fag end of its tenure, have been plucked out, he added.
The all-weather swimming pool has also been filled with sand while the imported tiles it was lined with have all been broken, an official said. Iron angles can be seen protruding at various places and many gates inside the house have also been damaged, they said. —