Land allotment scam : SC convicts ex-UP Chief Secretary Neera Yadav

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld conviction of former UP chief Secretary Neera Yadav and former IAS officer Rajiv Kumar in Noida land allotment scam that took place between 1993-95.

A bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and R Banumathi upheld Allahabad HC order convicting them in the corruption case but reduced the quantum of sentence of three years awarded by HC to two years. Yadav had moved apex court challenging order of Allahabad High Court convicting her.

A CBI court in Ghaziabad had convicted Yadav and senior IAS officer Rajeev Kumar in 2012 in a Noida plot scam that took place between 1994 and 1995 and sentenced them to three years' imprisonment. Yadav was the CEO of Noida Authority at then and Kumar was her deputy.

The 1971 batch IAS officer, Yadav, who went on to become UP's first woman chief secretary during the Samajwadi's government in 2005, took voluntary retirement in 2008. The CBI probe was ordered by the Supreme Court on a petition filed by Noida Entrepreneurs Association in 1997.