CBI has summoned Akhilesh Yadav on Friday in illegal mining case.

CBI has summoned Samajwadi Party Five years after the case was registered in the illegal mining case, the President and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will be present as witnesses for questioning on Friday.

In a notice issued under Section 160 of the CrPC, the agency asked him to appear before it on February 29 in connection with the case registered in 2019, officials said.

This section allows a police officer to call witnesses in the investigation.

The case pertains to the issuance of mining leases in alleged violation of the e-tendering process. Allahabad High Court Investigation was ordered.

Allegations are that during 2012-16, when Yadav was the chief minister, public servants allowed illegal mining and illegally renewed licenses despite a ban by the National Green Tribunal on mining.

It is alleged that officials allowed theft of minerals and extorted money from leaseholders and drivers.

The CBI had registered seven preliminary inquiries in 2016 on the instructions of the Allahabad High Court to investigate the case of illegal mining of minor minerals.

The agency had accused the then Chief Minister Akhilesh YadavOfficials said their office approved 13 projects in a single day.

He had said that Yadav, who also held the mining portfolio for some time, had approved 14 leases in violation of the e-tendering process, 13 of which were approved on February 17, 2013.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) claimed that on February 17, 2013, the leases were given by Hamirpur District Magistrate B Chandrakala after obtaining approval from the Chief Minister’s Office in violation of the 2012 e-tender policy. Which was approved by the Allahabad High Court on 29 January that year.

The CBI had conducted searches at 14 locations in January 2019 in connection with its FIR against 11 people, including IAS officer B Chandrakala, Samajwadi Party MLC Ramesh Kumar Mishra and Sanjay Dixit (who had contested the 2017 assembly elections on a BSP ticket). Investigate alleged illegal mining of minor minerals in Hamirpur district during 2012-16.

According to the FIR, Yadav, who was the chief minister of the state between 2012 and 2017, held the mining portfolio during 2012-13, which apparently brought his role under suspicion.

He was replaced by Gayatri Prajapati, who took charge as Mines Minister in 2013 and was arrested in 2017 following a rape complaint by a woman living in Chitrakote.

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