Taj Corridor Scam: The CBI has got permission to file a case against the then AGM of National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC) Mahendra Sharma in the Taj Corridor scam. The hearing will be conducted by a special judge in the CBI West Court on May 22. Learn about the case in detail.
BSP supremo is going to crack down on Mayawati in the Taj Corridor scam . In the scam, the CBI has got permission to file a case against the then AGM of National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC) Mahendra Sharma. The hearing of this case will be done on May 22 in the CBI West Court by a special judge. The hearing may increase the problems of many, including former Chief Minister Mayawati and her close minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui, who were accused of the scam.
In this case, a letter was sent to National Projects Construction Corporation Limited on 28 November 2022 and permission was sought to prosecute Mahendra Sharma as the contract to develop the corridor was given to this organization. Know what is the full story of the Taj Corridor scam.
What is Taj Corridor scam?
In the year 2002, Mayawati, the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, started a project to build a corridor in the vicinity of the Taj Mahal in Agra. The cost of this project was said to be Rs 175 crore, but only Rs 17 crore was released for it. The shocking thing was that the amount was released to NPCC without any contract for the construction of Taj Corridor. Apart from this, neither the work order was issued nor the detailed project report was taken from the institute. A petition was filed in the Supreme Court against this project.
While hearing the petition, the Supreme Court ordered an inquiry. The investigation of this matter was done by the CBI. The CBI named Mayawati and many others including the minister as accused and registered a case under different sections.
Twist came in the whole case
The twist in the hearing of this entire case came when the then Governor TV Rajeshwar refused to give permission to file a case against the accused, the then Chief Minister Mayawati and her minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui. Due to his move, on June 5, 2007, there was a full stop on the proceedings. Not only this, after this, approval was not given to file a case against the then Principal Secretary (Environment) RK Sharma and Secretary Rajendra Prasad and the court dropped the proceedings on March 9, 2009.
After this, an appeal was filed again in the High Court, but the court upheld the decision of the lower court. The petitioner challenged the decision of the High Court and filed an application in the Supreme Court, which is pending.
Case proceeded like this
The Prevention of Corruption Act was amended on 26 July 2018. After this, the way was cleared to file a case against the accused and officials involved in the scam and to put them in the dock. After the new amendment, the accused Mahendra Sharma got trapped.
In this whole case, the CBI made 11 people including Mayawati as accused. In this, former Chief Minister Mayawati, former Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui, the then Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister PL Punia, former Chief Secretary DS Bagga, the then Principal Secretary of the Environment Department RK Sharma, the then Under Secretary of the Environment Department Rajendra Prasad, the then Secretary of the Environment Department VK Gupta, KC Mishra, then Secretary, Central Environment and Forest Department, Ishvaku India Private Limited, New Delhi, Consultants Architects and Planners Limited (CAPS), New Delhi and SC Bali, the then Chairman and MD of NPCCL, were included.
The accused have been booked under sections 420 (cheating), 468 (conspiracy to cheat), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 467 forgery of valuable security, 471 (use of forged documents) besides sections 13(2) and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. (1) D also applied.
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