CBI files second status report in UP PF scam

New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) The Central Bureau of
Investigation Friday filed the second status report in the
Uttar Pradesh Provident Fund Scam case probe in which the
names of judicial officers including the judges of high court
and one from apex court have cropped up.

The report was filed in a sealed cover before a Bench
headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat.

The apex court asked the CBI to place before it another
report relating to the probe in which it has interrogated the
persons against whom no adverse findings have emerged.

The investigating agency also sought a direction that the
CPWD be asked to make evaluation of the main accused who was
arrested in connection with the scam.
The Supreme Court is to hear the matter on April one.

The Supreme Court had on September 23, 2008 transferred
the investigations into the UP provident fund scam to the CBI
after the Ghaziabad SP, who was probing the case, expressed
his inability in carrying out the investigations into the scam
involving judicial officers.

The 34 members of judiciary whose names have cropped up
in the scam include an apex court judge, seven Allahabad High
Court judges, six retired High Court judges and 12 judges from
subordinate judiciary in Uttar Pradesh.

According to the CBI, the provident fund savings of
Ghaziabad courts employees were illegally used to buy certain
household and electronic items for higher and district courts
judges. PTI