CBI requested him to appear earlier than it in reference to the case registered in 2019.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav as a witness for questioning on Friday in illegal mining circumstances, 5 years after registering the case. In a discover issued beneath part 160 of CrPC, the company requested him to appear earlier than it on February 29 in reference to the case registered in 2019, officers stated.
The part permits a police officer to summon witnesses in a probe. The case pertains to the issuance of mining leases in alleged violation of e-tendering course of. The Allahabad High Court had ordered the probe.
It is alleged that public servants allowed illegal mining throughout 2012-16, when Yadav was chief minister, and illegally renewed licences regardless of a ban by the National Green Tribunal on mining.
It is alleged that the officers allowed theft of minerals, extorted cash from lease-holders and drivers. The CBI had filed seven preliminary enquiries in 2016 on the instructions of the Allahabad High Court to probe the case of illegal mining of minor minerals. The company had alleged that the then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s workplace had cleared 13 initiatives in a single day, officers stated.
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They had stated Yadav, who additionally held the mining portfolio for someday, had cleared 14 leases, of which 13 had been cleared on February 17, 2013, in violation of e-tendering course of. CBI claimed that on February 17, 2013, the leases had been granted by the district Justice of the Peace of Hamirpur, B Chandrakala, after getting approval from the chief minister’s workplace in violation of its 2012 e-tender coverage, which was ratified by the Allahabad High Court on January 29 that 12 months.
The CBI had carried out searches at 14 places in January 2019 in reference to its FIR in opposition to 11 individuals, together with IAS officer B Chandrakala, Samajwadi Party MLC Ramesh Kumar Mishra and Sanjay Dixit (who unsuccessfully contested the 2017 meeting election on a BSP ticket) to probe the alleged illegal mining of minor minerals in Hamirpur district throughout 2012-16.
Yadav, who was the chief minister of the state between 2012 and 2017, held the mining portfolio throughout 2012-13 apparently bringing his function beneath scanner, in accordance to the FIR. He was succeeded by Gayatri Prajapati, who took cost as mining minister in 2013 and was arrested in 2017 following a grievance of rape by a lady residing in Chitrakoot.
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