Congress MLA seeks CBIprobe into Noida scam

LUCKNOW: UP Congress MLA Vivek Singh on Monday demanded a CBI probe into a land scam in Sectors 25A and 32A in Noida in which the UP government allegedly lost over Rs 50,000 crore.
In a letter to chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, Singh has said that the above land deal was executed during Mayawati's regime with the purpose to benefit liquor baron Ponty Chadda. The BSP government handed over one lakh square metre of commercial land to his Chaddha's Wave City with a moratorium of two years, Singh, an MLA from Banda, has alleged in his letter.
In a letter to the CM last week, Singh said while by giving two years moratorium the Noida authority lost around Rs 10,000 crore while the private company sold the land to other parties due to which the government lost around Rs 40,000 crore.
Demanding that the SP government should refer the matter for a CBI probe, the Congress MLA said that the CM should fulfill the promises made to the people during the election by ordering the probe into the scam.
He also threatened that if the government failed to order a probe then he would be forced to go before the court. Giving the details of the scam, Singh said that the government should probe all aspects of this controversial land deal and should find out as to how this deal was executed in favour of Ponty Chadda by the trusted lieutenant of Mayawati and the then PWD minister Nasimuddin Siddiqui.
Later talking to media persons, Singh said that if the government delayed action against Chadda's company then it could send a message to the people that the SP government was also trying to give patronage to the liquor baron.