Senior IAS officer, three others booked for transferring railway land to private company

SONEBHADRA: A senior IAS officer and three others have been booked for allegedly transferring land belonging to Railways to a private company using fake documents.

A case was filed against former District Magistrate Pandhari Yadav, Senior Divisional Engineer Railways Santosh Gupta, PWD executive engineer I D Ram and a senior functionary of the private firm, at Robertsganj Kotwali last night following directions of a court, Investigating Officer U P Yadav said today.

Advocate Vijay Prakash Malviya had moved the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on December 22, 2012 alleging that the four accused had got the Railways' land transferred to the company in 2012 for personal use with the help of fake documents.

CJM Vijay Chand Yadav had on February 2, 2015 directed the local police to register the case against them.