Suspended Uttar Pradesh Chief Engineer Yadav Singh was remanded to six-day CBI custody till February 10 on Thursday by a CBI court. He was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly abusing his official position in awarding contracts and causing wrongful loss to the Government exchequer.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) produced the suspended Chief Engineer of NOIDA/Greater Noida/Yamuna Expressway Authorities Yadav Singh in the court of G Sridevi, special judge anti-corruption CBI, and submitted for a 14 days remand.
Defence counsel Amit Khemka pleaded that UP police had already closed the case after a proper investigation but the court didn't agree with the defence and remanded the accused to 6 days CBI custody.
The CBI had registered a case against Singh and other unknown persons for alleged corrupt practices in the laying of underground cable worth Rs 9202 lakh in pursuance of lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court's July order.
An FIR was registered in 2012 against then Chief Engineer, NOIDA/Greater NOIDA & Yamuna Expressway Authorities for allegedly awarding various contracts without following the laid down procedures and thereby causing undue pecuniary gain to the tune of crores of rupees to private firms and himself.
The FIR ended in closure and a final report filed in the court of Special Session Judge, Noida(UP) by the local Police in January, 2014 which was accepted by the court in November, 2014.
It was also alleged that the tenders were called and received in the month of March itself but the tenders were opened in the month of November, 2011 and finally allotted to two different l-I firms based at Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad & Noida(UP) in the month of December, 2011.
It was further alleged that whereas the questioned work for underground cable like had already started from Sept., 2011 while the contract was signed in December, 2011 and that 60 per cent of work had already been completed before signing the contract. The work was allegedly allotted without following the tender formalities. The said two firms were allegedly given contract for work amounting to Rs21.90 crore (approx) and Rs25.50 crore (approx). later on, a part of the work worth Rs34.80 crore (approx) was also allegedly allotted to a firm based at Raj Nagar, Ghaziabad without resorting to any tender process. Then Chief Engineer had allegedly signed 1,280 contract (approx)bonds amounting to Rs959 crore (approx)in a span of eight days during November, 2014.
Earlier, CBI raids at 12 places at Noida, Greater Noida (UP)which led to recovery of documents of 38 immovable properties/houses at Noida and Agra and other incriminating documents.