Supreme Court notice to Mulayam Singh in assets case
by Maya Singh

    New Delhi: The Supreme Court today served a notice on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on a disproportionate assets case. The apex court also issued a notice to Mulayam's elder son and Samajwadi Party Member of Parliament Akhilesh Yadav. A Congress leader, Vishwanath Chaturvedi, had filed the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Supreme Court on November 28 last year. The petition attaches documents showing a huge real estate property in the name of Mulayam Singh, his first wife Malti, his second wife, Sadhana, sons Akhilesh and Pratik and daughter-in- law Dimple, in certain prime areas of Lucknow and Etawah.

   According to the petition, besides the huge agricultural land and houses in Singh's home district Etawah, at least six plots and houses were purchased in the name of Mulayam Singh's family members on Lucknow's Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Vikramaditya Marg, Gomati Nagar and Faizabad Road. The petition also alleges that Yadav owns a number of other plots, houses and commercial spaces through 'benami' transactions. The petition says that Singh, when became a minister for the first time in 1977, had submitted an affidavit under the provisions of Uttar Pradesh Ministers and Legislators (Publication of Assets and Liabilities) Act 1975, declaring three bighas of agriculture land, one house in village Safai and a residential plot in Etawah as all the property he owned. However, Akhilesh, in his return filed before the Lok Sabha, besides Rs.2.5 million bank deposits, shares and debentures worth Rs. 450,000 and an interest in other properties worth Rs.7.5 million, declared possession of at least three plots and a house in Lucknow.

    One of these was recently sold for Rs 25 million. The properties acquired in the name of Akhilesh's wife Dimple included a house on Lucknow's Mahatma Gandhi Marg for Rs.700,000. Dimple has about Rs.1.6 million deposited in her bank account and shares worth about Rs.1.3 million, jewellery worth about Rs.2.4 million, besides shares in other properties worth Rs.2.2 million. According to the petition, a huge plot was purchased in the name of Mulayam Singh's second son, Pratik, when he was a minor. Later the plot was sold for Rs.25 million to a Moradabad-based builder. He recently purchased a house with a huge plot of land on Vikramaditya Marg, Lucknow for Rs.10.7 million. The petitioner, who is a Congress leader, had earlier made a complaint in this regard to Uttar Pradesh Governor T.V. Rajeshwar and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.

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