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CBI raids 12 places in UP over illegal mining
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SME Times News Bureau | 10 Jul, 2019
The Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday searched 12 premises in Uttar Pradesh
in two separate cases related to illegal mining.
The raids were carried out in Bulandshahr, Lucknow, Fatehpur, Azamgarh, Allahabad, Noida, Gorakhpur and Deoria.
Cases
of illegal mining have been registered against Bulandshahr District
Magistrate Abhay Kumar Singh and former Deoria District Magistrate Vivek
among others.
The CBI has reportedly seized Rs 47 lakh cash from Abhay Kumar Singh's residence.
Cash
amounting to Rs 10 lakh was found from the premises of Devi Sharan
Upadhyay, a former Additional District Magistrate of Deoria (now posted
as CDO, Azamgarh).
The CBI also seized property documents from
the premises of Vivek, the former District Magistrate now posted as the
Director of Training and Employment, Lucknow.
The development can
spell trouble for former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav
since he has been linked to illegal mining.
Abhay Kumar Singh has
been under the CBI scanner for alleged irregularities in mining when he
was the District Magistrate of Fatehpur during the Akhilesh government.
Akhilesh Yadav was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017 and also the Mining Minister from 2012 to 2013.
The illegal mining allegedly took place between 2012 and 2016.
Sources in the CBI said that a total of 22 tenders passed by the UP government between 2012 and 2016 were being scrutinised.
Of
these, 14 were passed when Akhilesh Yadav held the mining portfolio and
the rest when Gayatri Prajapati was the Mining Minister.
Prajapati
is presently in jail on charges of gang rape of a woman and her minor
daughter. In June, the CBI searched his residence in Amethi.
The CBI had then conducted searches at 22 locations across the country, including at three premises of Prajapati in Amethi.
Earlier this year in January, the CBI raided several locations in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi in connection with the case.
The
homes of senior officers, including IAS officer B. Chandrakala in
Hamirpur, who served as the District Magistrate of Bijnor, Bulandshahr
and Meerut, were searched by the CBI.
SP MLC Ramesh Misra and his
brother, mining clerk Ram Ashray Prajapati, Ambika Tiwari from
Hamirpur, mining clerk Ram Avatar Singh and his relative and Sanjay
Dikshit were among the accused in the case.
According to the CBI, these officials allegedly allowed illegal mining in 2012-16.
"The
accused and certain other persons illegally granted and renewed fresh
leases and permitted obstructed period. These persons were allowed to
extort money from leaseholders and also extract money from drivers
carrying minerals," a CBI official said.
An FIR was registered
after the Allahabad High Court directed the CBI to conduct inquiries
over allegations of illegal sand mining in the five districts of Shamli,
Hamirpur, Fatehpur, Siddhartha Nagar and Deoria.
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