HC to monitor probe in multi-crore rupee foodgrain scam in UP: SC

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today allowed the Allahabad High Court to monitor the probe in multi-crore rupee foodgrain scam in Uttar Pradesh which is being investigated by CBI.

A bench headed by Justice H L Dattu vacated its order by which it had stayed the High Court's judgement in which it was held that the probe in the scam will be monitored by HC and CBI was directed to file a status report before it after every two months.

The court had on April 18, 2011, stayed the High Court's order directing the agency to file a status report before it after every two months.

The High Court had passed a slew of directions on the petition filed by advocate Vishwanath Chaturvedi alleging large scale irregularities in distribution of foodgrains supplied by the Centre under 'Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojna (SGRY)' which were also illegally diverted to neighbouring countries from Uttar Pradesh.