HC grants interim bail to son and daughters of Yadav Singh

The Allahabad High Court today granted interim bail to former government engineer Yadav Singh's son and daughters in a graft case.

The criminal cases were registered against Yadav's son Sunny Singh and daughters Garima Bhushan and Karuna Singh on July 30, 2015 under sections 109 read with 120-B IPC (conspiracy) and 13 (2) and 13 (1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

It was alleged in the FIR that they had been utilising the illegal money earned by Yadav Singh by making a company.

The matter was investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which submitted charge sheet against them.

At present, the trial against them is going on at the court of Special Judge (Anti Corruption, CBI Cases), Ghaziabad.

While directing that the three applicants be released on bail, a division bench comprising Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice D K Singh directed the Special Judge, Anti Corruption, CBI cases, Ghaziabad to ensure that if the applicants have any passport, the same shall be deposited and the applicants may not leave the country without the permission of this court.

It was made clear that all the three applicants shall remain present before this court on the next date fixed failing which coercive action shall be taken against them.

Yadav Singh was engineer-in-chief of the Noida Authority, Greater Noida Authority and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority.

Raids conducted by the Income Tax Department in November 2014 revealed that Yadav Singh owned huge property disproportionate to his known sources of income.

He was suspended by the Uttar Pradesh government in February 2015 and one-member judicial commission to probe into the multi-crore case was set up by the state government.

In July 2015, the Allahabad High Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the case stating that the allegations were most serious and the probe was complex.

The Uttar Pradesh government went to Supreme Court against the High Court's order. However the Supreme Court refused to entertain the government's plea.