Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav ordered a probe by the Vigilance Establishment into the alleged kickbacks given to officials for awarding contracts of Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA), Yamuna Expressway and Rajkiya Nirman Nigam (RNN) to Kasana Builders.
The government decision was purred by recommendation of Income Tax (IT) department.
As per an UP government communiqué on Friday evening, Akhilesh Yadav ordered the probe by Vigilance Establishment to confirm about the role of officials who collected huge-sum from Kasana Builders to award lucrative contracts in GDA, Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority and RNN. The contracts were given during the previous BSP regime.
The communique further confirmed that the IT sleuths wrote to Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani informing him that during Mayawati's chief ministership (2007 to 2012), officers of the above government organization collected money given as `graft’. Now further legal and departmental action will be initiated against them as per findings of the Vigilance Establishment fidnings.
Earlier the IT department raided five business and residential locations in Noida and Greater Noida at the establishment and houses of Kasana Builders and some officials of Noida and Greater Noida Authority on May 11 last year.
The raids were carried on at KP Singh’s residence at Sector 40, Noida (posted in Greater Noida Authority), RP Burman’s resident at Sector 50 in Noida (senior accountant in Noida Authority), Kasana Builder’s owner home in Sector 40 at Noida.
later two more locations in Greater Noida were raided including the houses of lalit Vikram (GM, Finance) and Ravindra Tongar (GM Property) who were working with the Greater Noida Authority. The IT officials claimed unearthed disproportionate assets possesed by the officials and claimed that undue advantage was accorded by them to Kasana Builders. On basis of the findings, the IT later reported it to the UP government pressing for an enquiry against the officials.