Five bureaucrats who shamed Uttar Pradesh with corruption charges
The bane of corruption has been virtually crippling the administration in Uttar Pradesh. With suspended engineer-in-chief of Noida, Yadav Singh, being arrested on Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Investigation, the issue of corrupt bureaucrats has been highlighted yet again.
The arrest has been made in connection with the Disproportionate Assets case. Singh is said to have doled out contracts worth over Rs 10,000 crore to his associates and has made housing, commercial, industrial, and institutional plot allotments to many top ranking builders in Noida, Greater Noida, and Yamuna Expressway. Back in on 27 November 2014, income tax officers recovered Rs. 10 crore in cash and two kilograms of diamond-studded gold ornaments from Yadav's property.
Charges of corruption are nothing new to UP bureaucracy. Here is the list of bureaucrats who have been accused of corruption in Uttar Pradesh in the last few years:
1. Pramod Shankar Shukla:
The CBI arrested Pramod Shankar Shukla for his alleged role in the diversion of food grain worth Rs 350 billion, meant for public distribution under the Below Poverty Line scheme. CBI had registered a case against 104 people for their involvement in the scam at the request of Uttar Pradesh government. In total, nine people were arrested; four financiers, two middle-men, and three former godown in charges.2. Neera Yadav:
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Neera Yadav and another IAS officer, Rajiv Kumar, were sentenced to three-year imprisonment by a special CBI court in the Noida Land Allotment scam in 2012. Yadav, a 1971 batch IAS officer, was the Chief Executive Officer of Noida in 1995 when she violated norms by allotting a prime plot of land to an industrialist. In 1994, she had also allotted one plot for herself and two for her daughters under a housing scheme. Eventually, she was granted bail by a Sessions court against a personal bond of Rs 5 lakh.
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3. Akhand Pratap Singh:
The CBI arrested IAS officer Akhand Pratap Singh, who was the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh during the previous Mulayam Singh Yadav regime, for his alleged involvement in the 2005 disproportionate assets case. Singh had been charged with converting his ill-gotten earnings into immovable assets acquired in the names of his family members, relatives, friends as well as some private limited companies. He is currently on bail while his case is under trial.4. Babu Singh Khushwaha:
Kushwaha, former Family Welfare Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was arrested by the CBI in 2012 in connection with the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam. Kushwaha, who is in jail since 3 March, had allegedly siphoned off a massive sum estimated at Rs 100 billion from the NHRM, a central government program meant to improve health care delivery in rural areas. The trial is underway in a CBI court at Ghaziabad.
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5. Nasimuddin Siddiqui:
It is an alleged scam where the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati and a minister in her government, Nasimuddin Siddiqui, were charged with corruption in 2002-2003. Funds worth Rs 1,400 crore, intended to upgrade tourist facilities near the Taj Mahal, were misappropriated during her tenure as Chief Minister. Nasimuddin Siddiqui was amongst the 19 people booked for their alleged role in the scam.
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Increasing number of bureaucrats from the Uttar Pradesh cadre continue to find their way into the hall of shame.
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