ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court on Wednesday granted bail to three junior engineers of Noida, who are accused in a scam in which former top Noida engineer Yadav
Singh is the main accused.
These junior engineers are Rajesh Kumar Sharma, Ram Dutt Sharma and Sushil Kumar Agarwal. A division bench of Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice
D K Singh-I directed that they be released if they are not wanted in any other case.
However, the court rejected the bail application of
Vinod Kumar Goyal, managing director of Messers Tripti Construction Private Limited, who is also accused in the scam.
Earlier, Yadav Singh’s son Sunny Singh and daughters Garima Bhushan and Karuna Singh were granted interim bail. It is alleged that they had floated a company to utilise the illegal money earned by Yadav Singh. The
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had submitted a charge sheet against these three junior engineers.
Criminal cases were registered against Yadav Singh and others on July 30, 2015 under sections 109 read with 120-B IPC (conspiracy) and 13 (2) and 13 (1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 registered with the CBI.Yadav Singh was engineer-in-chief of Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority.
Raids conducted by the Income Tax department in November 2014 showed that Yadav Singh owned huge property disproportionate to his known sources of income.
He was suspended by the UP government in February 2015.
In July 2015, Allahabad high court directed the CBI to investigate the case. .
Although the UP government moved Supreme Court against the HC order, the apex court had refused to entertain the government’s plea.
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