Mulayam Singh Yadav's kin had business interest in tainted ex-engineer's company

In an exclusive report, The Indian Expres__s found why the Uttar Pradesh government moved Supreme Court against a Allahabad High Court order against Noida’s former chief engineer Yadav Singh. Recently, the Allahabad High Court had ordered a CBI probe into corruption charges against Singh. The newspaper found that Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav ‘got a sweet deal from Yadav Singh via an aide’. The Indian Express says: “According to the Registrar of Companies (RoC), Ram Gopal Yadav’s son Akshay Yadav — he was elected to Lok Sabha on a SP ticket from Firozabad in May 2014 — took over 9,995 shares of N M Buildwell, a Delhi-registered company, from Rajesh Kumar Manocha, an associate of Yadav Singh and a former business partner of the latter’s wife, on September 11, 2013 — months after the SP government reinstated Yadav Singh who had been suspended earlier.” [caption id=“attachment_2430542” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Mulayam Singh Yadav. AFP.[/caption] Ram Gopal Yadav is SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s cousin and a party MP in Rajya Sabha. CBI had began it’s probe against Singh on 4 August this year. Hindustan Times had reported on 4 August: “Allahabad High Court had on July 16 ordered a CBI investigation into corruption allegations against Yadav Singh following a petition filed by Lucknow-based social activist Nutan Thakur, who demanded that only CBI probe can do justice with this case.” Ironically enough, the Akhilesh Yadav government had questioned why the Centre’s ’extreme interest' in the case. It becomes fairly clear now that, the Uttar Pradesh government was out to save its own interests. The IE reported in August this year: “The Uttar Pradesh government filed a petition against the July 16 order of the Allahabad High Court, which had handed over the probe to the CBI after relying on two letters written by the finance ministry to the UP government. In February, the ministry had written to the state, preferring a CBI probe against Singh since the Special Investigation Team in the black money case had recommended so.” The Uttar Pradesh government had also complained that the Centre was using its ‘vehicle’ CBI to further its own political motives.