CBI Gives Clean Chit To Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav 

New Delhi: The CBI has told the Supreme Court that it has cleared Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and his sons – party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Prateek Yadav – in a case of disproportionate assets filed against them in 2013 as the allegations could not be established. The clean chit to the Yadavs gains significance as it comes days before counting for votes in the Lok Sabha polls.

Earlier, the Yadavs had filed an affidavit claiming the case was purely political in nature, and has been brought out to coincide with the Lok Sabha election. The closure report is a big breather for the Yadavs, who had faced a lot of flak in wake of the allegations. The premier investigating agency, in an affidavit submitted in the court on May 9, said that after conducting a fair and impartial preliminary enquiry against the Yadav family, it took an independent decision to close the matter on August 7, 2013.

The CBI also said that the enquiry was conducted in the spirit of the apex court’s direction on December 13, 2012, and it did not seek any kind of direction from the Centre. Accordingly, it submitted a report with the Central Vigilance Commission and the competent authority in the CBI closed the case against Yadavs on August 7, 2013. “On careful examination of documents, statement of witnesses and the version of suspects during the course of enquiry, sufficient evidence to support the allegations of possession of disproportionate assets, jointly or individually, against Mulayam Singh Yadav and his family members could not be brought out,” the CBI said. (IANS)

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