CBI files charge-sheet against Yadav Singh, wife in graft case

CBI on Tuesday filed the first charge-sheet against suspended Noida chief engineer Yadav Singh, his wife and 12 others including three companies in a case of alleged corruption in handing out lucrative projects worth crores of rupees.

Keeping the option for further probe open, CBI said investigation into 1,280 contract bonds amounting to Rs 959 crore signed during his tenure at Noida is still going on.

In the charge-sheet, the agency has named Singh, his wife Kusumlata, Project Engineer (PE) Ramendra Singh, APEs Devi Ram Arya and Jaipal Singh, JEs Rajeev Kumar, RD Sharma and Om Pal Singh, company Tirupati Constructions and its Managing Partner V K Goel, JSP Construction and its partner Pankaj Jain, NKG Infrastructure and its managing director Pradeep Garg. Singh was arrested on February 3 while Ramendra was held on December 19, 2015.

The agency has charged them with criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery under IPC, besides abuse of official position and bribery under Prevention of Corruption Act.

They said the charge-sheet was filed in connection with alleged corruption in laying of underground electric cable in Udyog Marg and MP-1 Marg in Noida.

CBI has alleged that JSP Infrastructure got the contract of Rs 21.99 crore and Tirupati Construction got Rs 25.53 crore of work for laying of underground cable on December 8, 2011.