New Delhi: After the scare of President's rule, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav now has to face the Supreme Court's decision on corruption charges.
Complying with the Supreme Court directive, the CBI on Monday began a probe against Mulayam and some of his family members who have been accused of amassing wealth and property disproportionate to their known sources of income.
A Preliminary Enquiry has been registered against Mulayam and his kin.
The CBI will go through all the documents of the sale deeds and other statements filed by the parties along with the PIL filed in the Supreme Court.
The agency will also take the assistance of chartered accountants, engineers and certified valuers for evaluation of properties as listed in the PIL.
The Apex court order came on a PIL filed by Vishwanath Chaturvedi, a UP resident and advocate who had alleged the Samajwadi Party chief and his kin had amassed wealth by illegal means and by misusing their power and authority.
Chaturvedi, who has in his petition, attached sale deed copies of properties that Mulayam and his sons had purchased in the last 28 years during which he was in public life and his lawyer, D K Garg, had said that "Mulayam has bought the whole of Lucknow".
According to Chaturvedi, Mulayam had assets worth only Rs 79,000 in 1977 which according to his own admission now stands at about Rs 30 crore, while the total income from the salaries and other sources of Mulayam Singh, his two sons and daughter-in-law is only Rs 1.25 crore.
Chaturvedi has alleged that the total assets of UP Chief Minister, his MP son Akhilesh Kumar Singh Yadav, his another son Pratik Yadav and his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav are over Rs 100 crore and SP MPs have generously contributed to the private colleges being run by Yadav family members in district Etawah, from MP LAD scheme.
According him the assets have been acquired by Mulayam and his family members by abusing their official status as public servant and hence the respondents are liable to be prosecuted under the Prevention of Corruption Act for allegedly acquiring assets beyond their known sources of income.
The affidavit submitted along with Lok Sabha polls nomination papers says that he has Rs 24,24,765 in bank deposits, fixed deposits worth Rs 1,08,317 and two cars worth Rs 7.5 lakhs and Rs 1.5 lakhs.
Mulayam also has about Rs 24 lakhs in bank deposits and owns property worth over Rs 89 lakhs.
The petitioner's counsel had, however, demanded the appointment of an independent counsel on the lines of US Supreme Court, which appointed such counsel to investigate charges against the former US presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, as the recent CBI investigations against the political personalities have not been found free and fair as the premier investigating agency changed its tune with the change of party in power.
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