CBI seeks transfer of UP PF scam to Delhi, files fresh report

New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) The Central Bureau of
Investigation Friday asked the Supreme Court to transfer the
case relating to Uttar Pradesh provident fund scam, in which
names of judicial officers including judges of the high court
and one of the apex court have cropped up, to the national
capital for the convenience of the investigating agency
headquartered here.

The investigating agency, which placed its second status
report in a sealed cover about the probe into the scam through
Solicitor General G E Vahanvati before a Bench headed by
Justice Arijit Pasayat, said it would like the matter to be
shifted from Ghaziabad to Delhi.

The court was informed about the progress in the case and
CBI sought a direction for the CPWD to make an evaluation of
the property of main accused Ashutosh Asthana, a treasury
official, who was arrested in connection with the scam.

The Bench, also comprising Justices V S Sirpurkar and
G S Singhvi, 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 by March 31 and
posted the matter for further hearing on April 1.

Meanwhile, Shubash Chander, a District Judge whose name
had cropped in the scam, filed an application through senior
advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, stating that he was interrogated by
the CBI and there was no adverse finding against him.

Chander said he was not involved in any way in the scam
and his service record was good. MORE PTI RKS
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