4 LDA officials put under suspension

LUCKNOW: UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav may lay the foundation stone of Janeshwar Mishra park on the occasion of Mishra's birth anniversary on Sunday. Sources said that the Lucknow Development Authority may thereafter begin the work on the Janeshwar Mishra Park, which is proposed in place of a green belt in Gomtinagar. The area sprawling over an area of around 500 acres was proposed to have a residential colony.
Meanwhile, the Lucknow Development Authority suspended four officials including a property officer and recommended departmental enquiry against a joint secretary on charges of allotting plots fraudulently to buyers. The matter pertains to allotment of around half a dozen plots in Gomtinagar Extension in which officials colluded to revive and adjust plots of people in the area in 2008. The plots were later sold off and the process of mutation was also done in favour of new buyers.
LDA vice-chairman, Rajneesh Dubey said that they suspension orders have been issued to three clerks and recommendation has been made to suspend property officer KK Singh. tnnThe role of former joint secretary, RK Shukla too have come under a scanner after he got the property registered in favour of allottees in the absence of another joint secretary, SK Singh, who is reported to have smelled a rat and refused to sign on the papers.