Maya’s tax returns, list of her assets on way to apex court

While one residential property in Sardar Patel Marg has been purchased in the name of the BSP, several bungalows have been bought by Mayawati’s brothers in the Inderpuri colony in West Delhi. Many of these properties have been recently purchased.

Officials say that the agency now has a copy of Mayawati’s tax returns which have been filed in the 3(1a) circle in New Delhi and show taxable income of around Rs 80 lakh over a five-year period.

Besides Mayawati, the CBI will also be submitting details of properties and assets acquired by senior bureaucrats whose names have figured in the Taj corridor controversy. During its last hearing on September 11, the Supreme Court had asked the CBI to furnish details on their asset acqusition and if possible, to try and estabish a quid pro quo between the purchases and the money released for the Taj project.

The CBI, has, all along taken the plea that they were facing a paucity of time for handling this aspect of the case and that since they have not been permitted by the Supreme Court to register FIR’s in the case, their investigations have been incomplete.

However, it is understood that details of assets acquired by 11 top bureaucrats including those by Mayawati’s Principal Secretary, P L Punia, former Chief Secretray D S Bagga and former Environment Secretary R K Sharma.

Sources say that earlier, leads given by one of the applicants, Ajay Agarwal. were verified by the CBI and many of them found to be inaccurate. Agarwal has yesterday handed over to the CBI details of prime nazul (Government) land which was converted to free hold land by Mayawati in early August, located near the Secretariat in Lucknow.

This land has allegedly been purchased by Mayawati in her own name (as a party leader) and her own residential address given in the records now with the CBI.