HC gives bail to Neera Yadav

The Allahabad High Court today granted bail to former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Neera Yadav and industrialist Ashok Chaturvedi, sentenced to four-year imprisonment in a Noida land scam case last week.

Justice Vinod Prasad passed the order on bail petitions of Yadav, who had been held guilty for irregularities in allotment of industrial land plots in Noida, when she was the CEO of Noida Authority in the 1990s, and Chaturvedi, who owns Flex Industries.

62-year-old Yadav and Chaturvedi, 57, were lodged in the high-security Dasna jail in Ghaziabad on December 7.