The Supreme Court on Thursday endorsed the cancellation of the draw of lots for 1,250 residential plots in Noida in 2005 and allowed a CBI probe into the massive bungling in the preparation of the list of successful applicants, which included VVIPs and their relatives.
The draw of lots, which took place on July 2, 2005, was hastily cancelled two days later by the Noida authority during the Mulayam Singh Yadav regime after a hue and cry over the alleged bungling in the preparation of the list, which the administration had attributed to a computer snag.
Prominent among those who figured in the draw of lots list were 22 civil servants, 9 MPs, 14 MLAs, MLCs and state ministers, then advocate-general Virendra Bhatia, then CJI Y K Sabharwals daughter-in-law Sheeba Sabharwal, two sitting judges of the Allahabad high court Justices Poonam Srivastava and Udai Krishna Dhaon, a sitting judges niece, Nikita Pandey and Justice Jagdish Bhallas relative, Aarohi Bhalla.
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