New Delhi: The CBI has requested Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to seem as a witness for questioning on Thursday in reference to unlawful mining instances, which had been registered 5 years in the past. The company issued a discover beneath part 160 of CrPC, which empowers a police officer to summon witnesses in a probe, and informed him to seem earlier than it on February 29 in relation to the case registered in 2019, officers mentioned.
The case is in regards to the granting of mining leases in alleged breach of e-tendering course of. The probe was ordered by the Allahabad High Court. The CBI alleged that public servants permitted unlawful mining throughout 2012-16, when Yadav was the chief minister, and unlawfully renewed licences regardless of a ban by the National Green Tribunal on mining.
The CBI additionally alleged that the officers facilitated the theft of minerals, extorted cash from lease-holders and drivers. The CBI had registered seven preliminary enquiries in 2016 following the instructions of the Allahabad High Court to research the case of unlawful mining of minor minerals.
The company had claimed that the then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s workplace had authorized 13 tasks in a single day, officers mentioned. They had mentioned that Yadav, who additionally had the mining portfolio for someday, had authorized 14 leases, out of which 13 had been authorized on February 17, 2013, in violation of e-tendering course of.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) mentioned that on February 17, 2013, the leases got by the district Justice of the Peace of Hamirpur, B (*5*), after getting approval from the chief minister’s workplace in breach of its 2012 e-tender coverage, which was endorsed by the Allahabad High Court on January 29 that 12 months.
The CBI had performed searches at 14 areas in January 2019 in relation to its FIR towards 11 folks, together with IAS officer B (*5*), Samajwadi Party MLC Ramesh Kumar Mishra and Sanjay Dixit (who misplaced the 2017 meeting election on a BSP ticket) to research the alleged unlawful mining of minor minerals in Hamirpur district throughout 2012-16.
Yadav, who was the chief minister of the state between 2012 and 2017, had the mining portfolio throughout 2012-13, which apparently put his position beneath scrutiny, in line with the FIR. He was changed by Gayatri Prajapati, who grew to become the mining minister in 2013 and was arrested in 2017 after a girl dwelling in Chitrakoot accused him of rape.
