Former Noida top bosses get 3 years’ jail
21 Nov 2012 7:06 AM IST
Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) cum Chairman of New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida) Neera Yadav and then Deputy CEO Rajiv Kumar have been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by a CBI court here in a land allotment scam in 1998. Yadav retired after serving as chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh while Kumar is currently heading Department of Appointment and Personnel as principal secretary in Uttar Pradesh government. The court has given one month time to both the officers to file appeal in the High Court.
Pronouncing the judgement in two separate cases, the judge awarded three years imprisonment and a fine of Rs one lakh each for both the officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in the illegal allotment of land to Rajiv Kumar in sector 16. While in another case, Neera Yadav was sentenced three years imprisonment and Rs 50,000 fine for illegally allotting plots to her two daughters in sector 44. Yadav was Chairperson cum CEO of Noida at the time of these allotments. ‘The sentences in both the cases will continue simultaneously,’ said S Lal, Additional District Judge (CBI) in his order. The judgement came on a case of corruption registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on direction of Supreme Court on 26 February 1998. The chargesheet was filed on 16 October 2002.
Earlier, on 7 December, 2010, Yadav was sentenced for four years in jail by the special CBI court for violating the rules to help a company named Flex Industries get an industrial plot in Noida in 1995 when she was the chairman cum CEO of the authority. The chairman of Flex, Ashok Chaturvedi, was also sentenced to four years. She had to spend some time in Dasna jail of Ghziabad before bail. The special appeal of Yadav in the case in still pending in Allahabad High Court.
Yadav was appointed chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh in April 2005 when Mulayam Singh Yadav was the chief minister. She was voted the most corrupt IAS officer in the state by her colleagues and was later removed on the orders of the Supreme Court on the basis of multiple charges of corruption.
Pronouncing the judgement in two separate cases, the judge awarded three years imprisonment and a fine of Rs one lakh each for both the officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in the illegal allotment of land to Rajiv Kumar in sector 16. While in another case, Neera Yadav was sentenced three years imprisonment and Rs 50,000 fine for illegally allotting plots to her two daughters in sector 44. Yadav was Chairperson cum CEO of Noida at the time of these allotments. ‘The sentences in both the cases will continue simultaneously,’ said S Lal, Additional District Judge (CBI) in his order. The judgement came on a case of corruption registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on direction of Supreme Court on 26 February 1998. The chargesheet was filed on 16 October 2002.
Earlier, on 7 December, 2010, Yadav was sentenced for four years in jail by the special CBI court for violating the rules to help a company named Flex Industries get an industrial plot in Noida in 1995 when she was the chairman cum CEO of the authority. The chairman of Flex, Ashok Chaturvedi, was also sentenced to four years. She had to spend some time in Dasna jail of Ghziabad before bail. The special appeal of Yadav in the case in still pending in Allahabad High Court.
Yadav was appointed chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh in April 2005 when Mulayam Singh Yadav was the chief minister. She was voted the most corrupt IAS officer in the state by her colleagues and was later removed on the orders of the Supreme Court on the basis of multiple charges of corruption.
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