HC dismisses PIL demanding CBI probe into Mayawati land
Monday - August 27, 2018 6:08 pm ,
Category : INDIA
HC dismisses PIL demanding CBI probe into Mayawati land
Lucknow Aug 27 (IANS) The Allahabad High Court on Monday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati demanding a CBI probe into an alleged land scam.
Petitioner Sandeep Bhatt had alleged that the former UP chief minister had got a vast stretch of land allotted in her family s name by misusing her position and got illegal construction done on it in Badalpur her native village in Gautam Budh Nagar.
A bench of Chief Justice D.B. Bhonsle and Justice Yashwant Verma dismissed the petition.
Earlier the Allahabad High Court had in 2017 served a notice on the four-time UP chief minister her brother Anand Kumar and father Prabhu Dayal in a case in which the Dalit leader is accused of getting the agricultural land use changed and transferring the land to her family members.
Mayawati has a huge mansion built on this land the petitioner said alleging that Mayawati between 2002-2005 purchased over 50 bighas of agricultural land from farmers and got the construction done without following procedure.
--IANS md/prs
Petitioner Sandeep Bhatt had alleged that the former UP chief minister had got a vast stretch of land allotted in her family s name by misusing her position and got illegal construction done on it in Badalpur her native village in Gautam Budh Nagar.
A bench of Chief Justice D.B. Bhonsle and Justice Yashwant Verma dismissed the petition.
Earlier the Allahabad High Court had in 2017 served a notice on the four-time UP chief minister her brother Anand Kumar and father Prabhu Dayal in a case in which the Dalit leader is accused of getting the agricultural land use changed and transferring the land to her family members.
Mayawati has a huge mansion built on this land the petitioner said alleging that Mayawati between 2002-2005 purchased over 50 bighas of agricultural land from farmers and got the construction done without following procedure.
--IANS md/prs
