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Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Sunday mounted a frontal attack against SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadavs son and Lok Sabha MP Akhilesh Yadav,alleging that he was behind the case of Rs 500 crore financial fraud registered against him in Kanpur last year.
First of all,I want to apologise to UP CM Mayawati because it was not she but the brother and son of the SP supremo (Mulayam Singh Yadav) who got me framed in the case lodged at Babupurva police station (in Kanpur), Amar Singh wrote in his latest blog post,without naming Ram Gopal Yadav (Mulayams brother) and Akhilesh.
Amar Singh was referring to an FIR lodged against him and his wife Pankaja in Babupurva police station (in Kanpur) in October last year in connection with a financial fraud. The complainant,advocate Shiv Kant Tiwari,had alleged that the couple had amassed nearly Rs 500 crore between 2003 and 2008.
A functionary of my old party (SP) was given Rs 5 crore in first tranche and then Rs 2 crore in second trance,a total of Rs 7 crore,to frame me, he alleged,claiming that one Dhirendra Sahay,whom he describes as Akhilesh Yadavs friend,among others,which included a Congress Member of Parliament and a senior bureaucrat in Mayawati administration,were aware of the conspiracy from the very beginning.
Akhilesh rejects charges
NEW DELHI: Akhilesh Yadav rejected Amar Singhs charge that he was behind framing him in the financial fraud case. I dont have any friend by the name of Dhirendra Sahay. It is neither in my character or nature nor in my habit to frame anybody in false charges ostensibly to settle political scores, Akhilesh told The Indian Express . ENS
