By IANS
New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday raided the office of the Noida administration and dozens of places in Lucknow, Meerut and other places in connection with a land allotment scam in the Uttar Pradesh town bordering the national capital.
The scam took place during the tenure of the previous Mulayam Singh Yadav government when scores of plots in the satellite town were allegedly illegally allotted to politicians, bureaucrats, police officials, journalists and relatives of retired judges.
According to CBI officials, the raids began in the morning at the office of the Noida administration, responsible for allotting and distributing plots to applicants.
Homes of some former and serving officials of the Uttar Pradesh Development System Corporation (UPDESCO) were also raided.
“Raids were conducted at 20 places to probe charges that officials of Noida, UPDESCO and state government entered into a criminal conspiracy in connection with the allotment of residential plots by falsifying electronic records knowingly or intentionally altering the computer ‘source code’ developed for the draw of the lots,” a senior CBI official told IANS.
“The code was altered for framing an incorrect document with certain pre-decided applicants listed as successful applicants under the residential plot scheme for which the draw was held on July 2, 2005,” the official added.
He claimed incriminating documents had been recovered and the raids would continue all of Friday.