A CBI court on Tuesday sentenced former Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Neera Yadav and Flex Industries chairman Ashok Chaturvedi to four years in prison for irregularities in the allotment of plots in Noida.
The court also slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 each on the two. Both Yadav and Chaturvedi were sent to the Dasna jail in Ghaziabad.
Yadav was chairperson-cum-chief executive of the Noida Authority during the scam. She entered into a criminal conspiracy with another IAS officer, Rajiv Kumar, to cause pecuniary advantage by allotting a plot to Kumar. The plot was earmarked for a guesthouse but its land use was changed.
Yadav is the wife of BJP MLA Mahindra Singh Yadav. Her conviction and sentencing is a big embarrassment for former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
It was Mulayam's government that had promoted Yadav as state chief secretary despite her reputation as a corrupt bureaucrat. She was removed from the post after a Supreme Court rap.
In 1997, Yadav's name had figured in the second position on a list of Uttar Pradesh's most corrupt officials.
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