The Hindu : CBI scrutinising accounts, assets of Mayawati

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Sunday, Jan 25, 2004

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CBI scrutinising accounts, assets of Mayawati

By Vinay Kumar

NEW DELHI, JAN. 24. Nearly four months after the Central Bureau of Investigation registered the First Information Report against the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati, and others in the Taj Heritage Corridor scam, the CBI sleuths are scrutinising bank accounts, assets of her relatives and related documents.

Sources said the agency might take some more time before filing a charge-sheet in the case that was entrusted for probe to it by the Supreme Court. Evidence collected so far indicates that in the recent past she has received gifts from 300 persons.

The agency has also found the existence of 60 bank accounts belonging to Ms. Mayawati and her relatives in Delhi, Noida and the neighbouring towns of Uttar Pradesh. They reportedly have a balance of over Rs. 8 crores. About 65 pieces of property belonging to her relatives in Delhi and Noida have come to light during investigations. Their registered value is said to be to the tune of Rs. 7 crores, sources said.

During her tenure as Chief Minister, Ms. Mayawati's brother, Subhash Kumar, figured as an accused in a scam in the allotment of plots in Noida when Neera Yadav, a senior IAS officer, was administrator there. Mr. Kumar who was employed as a carpenter in Noida did not have the qualification for the post.

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