Police arrest two in LACCFED scam
LUCKNOW: The co-operative cell of the Uttar Pradesh Police probing into LACCFED scam arrested an executive engineer of Agra division and superintendent engineer and handed over the two to Mahanagar police late on Wednesday night. On the other hand, one of the prime accused and PRO of LACCFED, Praveer Kumar, surrendered before the district court in Lucknow.
Sources said that those arrested by the cell were identified as executive engineer Agra division Sanjay Kumar and superintending engineer Ajay Kumar Dohre. The two had been handed over to Mahanagar police, circle officer Habibul Hasan said.It was only on Tuesday that sources had confirmed that the co-operative cell of the Uttar Pradesh Police was planning question Badshah Singh, the labour minister in the Bahujan Samaj Party government.
The co-operative cell is all set to serve a notice on the former minister seeking his personal appearance before the investigators within the next 72 hours, sources had confirmed. The move follows revelation by a number of engineers and contractors, who had accused Badshah Singh of pocketing crores of rupees as bribe, which he had taken to ensure that they get multi-crore construction contracts through LACCFED. The minister however not only failed to live up to his promise, but also refused to refund the money as well despite regular reminders.”At least two persons including an engineer and a contractor have alleged that they had given a hefty sum of money to Badshah Singh against his promise of awarding them contracts related to construction work worth crores of rupees,” said a senior officer.”Initially he told these individuals that he had forwarded the cash to senior politicians, but later on admitted before them that he had pocketed the entire sum himself. When the two started asking him for refund, he allegedly began avoiding the duo,” the officer said.
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