Noida scam: ED notices to four IAS officers

 Noida scam: ED notices to four IAS officers


Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui, TNN, May 11, 2010, 04.47am IST

LUCKNOW: The enforcement directorate (ED) has registered a case of money-laundering and issued notices to three serving and one retired IAS officers of Uttar Pradesh cadre whose names have figured in the Rs 4,721 crore Noida land scam that took place during 2006-2007. The list also has the names of 11 other senior officials including 3 PCS officers.

The action came after the ED took suo motu cognisance of inputs on money-laundering in connection with the Noida land scam that took place during Mulayam Singh Yadav's last regime as chief minister of UP and was detected shortly after Mayawati took over in May, 2007.

The serving officers, who have been issued notices are Rakesh Bahadur, Sanjeev Saran and Ravindra K Nair (assistant CEO). Devdutt, who also served as Noida CEO, retired the year the scam was detected.

Apart from the four IAS, officers from the Provincial Civil Service (PCS) including CP Singh (who was the then deputy CEO), the then town-planner SK Jamal and the then chief finance officer SC Singh, have also been served notices.

The move is sure to ring alarm bells for the Samajwadi Party (SP) top shots who are almost certain to have benefited from the scam. Once grilled by the ED, the accused officers are expected to spill the beans.

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