Akhilesh Yadav summoned by CBI in UP unlawful mining case, requested to seem as witness | Lucknow Information
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Samajwadi Occasion president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav as a witness in unlawful mining instances on Tuesday.
The CBI discover, issued beneath part 160 of the CrPC, requires him to seem earlier than the company on February 29 for questioning. This case, registered in 2019, pertains to the alleged violation of the e-tendering course of in issuing mining leases.The probe was ordered by the Allahabad excessive court docket.
It’s alleged that unlawful mining befell through the years 2012-2016, when Akhilesh Yadav was the chief minister, and that licenses have been illegally renewed regardless of a ban by the Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal. The officers concerned are accused of permitting theft of minerals and extorting cash from lease-holders and drivers. In 2016, the CBI filed seven preliminary enquiries as directed by the Allahabad excessive court docket to analyze the unlawful mining of minor minerals.
The company claims that 13 tasks have been cleared by Akhilesh Yadav’s workplace in a single day, and 14 leases have been authorised in violation of the e-tendering course of. The leases have been granted by the district Justice of the Peace of Hamirpur, B Chandrakala, with approval from the chief minister’s workplace, in contravention of the 2012 e-tender coverage.
The CBI performed searches at 14 places in January 2019 as a part of its investigation, focusing on 11 people, together with IAS officer B Chandrakala, Samajwadi Occasion MLC Ramesh Kumar Mishra, and Sanjay Dixit. Akhilesh Yadav’s function because the chief minister and because the mining minister throughout 2012-13 is being scrutinized. Gayatri Prajapati, who succeeded Yadav because the mining minister, was arrested in 2017 on fees of rape.
