CBI to close disproportionate case against Mulayan Singh

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will soon close its probe into the disproportionate assets case against Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav as it failed to gather evidence.

The Supreme Court had ordered a CBI inquiry on March 1, 2007 into the alleged accumulation of disproportionate assets by the Yadav family, on a PIL by an advocate Vishwanath Chaturvedi.
The sources said that of the Rs 2.63 crore of alleged disproportionate assets which were inquired by the agency between 1993 to 2005, nearly Rs 1.4 crore are in the name of Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple, which had weakened the case.

Last December, the Supreme Court had directed the CBI to go ahead with the probe against Mulayam and his sons Akhilesh and Prateek, but dropped the probe against Dimple saying that she was not holding any public office and was only a private person.

Exclusion of Dimple changed course of investigation as allegedly unexplainable assets were in her name, the sources said, adding that the ruling weakened the case.