Within 24-hours of placing tainted chief engineer of Noida authority Yadav Singh, under suspension, state government initiated further proceedings on Tuesday when it also suspended two more Noida Authority officers who were alleged to be having nexus with the chief engineer, accused of amassing wealth through illegal means.
Both the accomplices of Yadav Singh, identified as assistant project engineer, Ramendra Singh and accountant, Pradeep Sharma, have been suspended after an Income Tax report figured their names in the multi-crore rupees scam. Sources here said these two officials were in nexus with Singh in giving around 5,000 tenders of the Noida authority to fake companies.
On Monday, Singh was suspended by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav after Income Tax department had submitted its report to the government regarding the raid on Singh. An IT raid last month had unearthed unaccounted cash money of more than Rs 12 crore, two kilograms of diamonds and documents of 40 fake companies from Singh.
Meanwhile in Muzaffarnagar, a revenue clerk has been suspended by the district authorities in connection with the land grabbing case at Hastinapur Sanctuary even as two other officials were booked for their involvement in the scam. Clerk Shiv Kumar has been suspended for his involvement in government land grabbing case at Khatoli on Monday,
Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Vaibhav Sharma told reporters in Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday morning. Earlier, Kumar was shifted to Khatoli tehsil from Jansath after grabbing scam was unearthed by the district authorities.
Previously, three revenue clerks Jaibhagwan, Promod and Ramesh Kumar have already suspended in this connection. Meanwhile, the then Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Jansath, Devender Kumar, then tehsildar Bharat Bhushan have been booked in connection with land grabbing, Additional District Magistrate (Finance) R K Sharma said. A case was lodged against the officials at Bhopa police station, he said. So far, 1200 bigha government land has been freed from unauthorised possession, out of which sugarcane crop grown on 600 bigha was later found by the district authorities.