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The Supreme Court today issued notice to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, seeking reply why criminal trial should not be ordered against him for allegedly accumulating wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income.
A bench of Justices Ruma Pal, A R Lakshmanan and Dalveer Bhandari also issued notices to his son and Lok Sabha member Akhilesh Singh Yadav, his son through his second wife, Sadhna, Prateek Yadav, daughter-in-law and Akhilesh’s wife Dimpal Yadav and the Union of India on a public interest litigation (PIL) by one Vishwanath Chaturvedi who called himself a “social worker” from UP seeking criminal action against the respondents arrayed in the case.
In his affidavit, Chaturvedi, while maintaining that there was no political vengeance against Yadav and his family, stated that he was “adopted” by the Congress party in the last Assembly elections to contest against BJP’s Rajnath Singh.
“The PIL is to highlight how (the) present chief minister of (the) largest state of the country, namely, Mulayam Singh Yadav and his family members and relatives have broken all limits of corruption by acquiring amassed wealth and properties, disproportionate to their known sources (of income) by misusing their power and authority”, he submitted while seeking a direction to the Centre to prosecute them under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
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PIL filed by once-Cong candidate lists plots, houses, bank accounts
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