Ex-UP Chief Secretary remanded to 12 days CBI custody

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Akhand Pratap Singh, who was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a two-year-old disproportionate assets case, was remanded to 12 days CBI custody.

New Delhi, Sept.26 : Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Akhand Pratap Singh, who was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a two-year-old disproportionate assets case, was remanded to 12 days CBI custody.

Special judge I K Kochhar sent Singh to the custody of the agency till October 8 as the CBI sought his custodial interrogation to take him to different states where Singh allegedly owned properties.

While the probe agency had sought for 14 days custody, Singh's counsel had opposed CBI's contention to seek the custodial interrogation of his client.

Singh, a high-profile former bureaucrat, who was once voted the most corrupt officer by the Uttar Pradesh IAS Association is accused of amassing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income through corrupt means.

According to the corruption case registered against him in 2005, Singh acquired as many as 84 immovable properties in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand worth Rs 200 crore.

He was also accused of forging the signatures of his dead father and a friend for transferring the properties and routing financial transactions through fictitious bank accounts.

After the case against Singh was registered, the CBI had in 2005 also conducted raids at 16 places and allegedly found huge properties in his name and in the name of his daughter. e was arrested by the agency sleuths from his Vasant Kunj farmhouse while he attempted to flee from there.

His arrest was made since he was not cooperating with the investigations and further there was proof suggesting that he had tampered with the evidence pertaining to the case, the CBI had said.

ANI