CBI registers three cases to probe Sports City projects ‘scam’ in Noida

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The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered three cases following the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom directives to probe an alleged conspiracy between unknown Noida Authority officers and the builders concerned in the allotment, improvement, and sanction of Sports City projects throughout 2011-14. The suspected loss to the State exchequer is sort of ₹9,000 crore.

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Within the first case, the company has named Logix Infra Builders Non-public Restricted, Shakti Nath (director), Meena Nath (director), Vikram Nath (director), apart from unknown individuals, together with Noida Authority officers.

As per the First Info Report, a contract was awarded to the very best bidder — a consortium of firms led by Logix Infra Builders — in Could 2011 for the event of a Sports City in Noida Sector 150.

The second case has named Lotus Inexperienced Constructions Non-public Restricted, Nirmal Singh (director), Vidus Bharadwaj (director), Surpreet Singh Suri (director), and unknown individuals, together with Noida Authority officers. It pertains to the event of a sports activities metropolis in Noida Sector 150.

Within the third case pertaining to the event of a Sports City undertaking in Sector 78-79 in Noida, the company has named Xanadu Estates Non-public Restricted, Nirmal Singh (director), Vidus Bharadwaj (director), Surpreet Singh Suri (director), unknown Noida Authority officers and others.

In its order, the Excessive Courtroom noticed that after the allotment of the projects, again and again the associated situations have been breached by the allotees/sub-leasees, allegedly in connivance with Noida Authority officers. “All the technique of improvement of the Sports City, together with conceiving the scheme, allotment, execution of the lease deed, sanction of map, and implementation of the Sports City smacks of fraud and corruption,” it mentioned.

The court docket additionally noticed that no remedial measures had been taken by the Authority and the State authorities towards delinquent officers, even after the Comptroller and Auditor Basic had level out the alleged rip-off in the audit report.