The Special Task Force (STF), investigating fraudulent appointments of 17 people in the Assembly Secretariat by "misusing" official position between 1993 and 2003, issued notice to former Chief Minister Digvijay Singh on Sunday.
The STF team after issuing the notice reached the bungalow on Shyamla Hills where the staff of the Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP was present. As per the notice Singh has to register his statement before the STF before September 30.
Notably, the State police on September 21 submitted a 2,000-page charge-sheet against 16 of the 22 accused of misusing their position to recruit 17 people in the MP Assembly Secretariat between 1993 and 2003.
Those charge-sheeted include former Speaker of MP Assembly and veteran Congress leader Sriniwas Tiwari. Octogenarian Tiwari was wheeled into the court room and was later granted bail on a bond of Rs30,000.
Singh has also been booked along with Tiwari and others in the recruitment scam. Former MP Assembly speaker Sriniwas Tiwari, former principal secretary of State Assembly AK Pyasi, Satya Narayan Sharma, Kamalkant Sharma, Pradeep Mishra, Abha Chaturvedi, Amit Awasthi, Brahmachari Tiwari, Ramesh Dwivedi, Arun Tiwari, Shukramani Mishra, Sharad Dwivedi, Sudhir Tiwari, Anil Mishra, Kuldeep Pandey, Davendra Tiwari, Ramesh Tiwari, Yagya Narayan Sharma have been made accused in the case so far. The police is yet to file a charge-sheet Digivijay Singh and five others.
FIR was registered at Jehangirabad police station in February this year after deputy secretary of MP assembly Shyam lal Maithil submitted a 14-page complaint citing Justice Sachin Dwivedi's report on irregularities in appointments to assembly secretariat during Digvijay's tenure as chief minister.
The complaint said 17 people were given jobs overlooking age, qualification and other requisites. It added appointments were made on plain paper without following any procedure in some cases.
Investigation into recruitments during the Congress rule started in 2005 when justice Dwivedi headed a probe.
Dwivedi submitted his report recently which said 17 people were hired without following due procedures.