New Delhi: The Supreme Court today issued notices to Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh and others on a petition by Uttar Pradesh Government seeking transfer of all cases relating to Lucknow land allotment scam from Allahabad High Court to apex court.

A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan sought replies from Singh and others, including some bureaucrats, on the state government's plea since a petition in this regard was already pending before it.

The previous Mulayam Singh government had allegedly alloted 28 plots illegally in prime locality of Lucknow. The state government had filed an application earlier before the apex court seeking permission to initiate criminal action against the former the Chief Minister.

The Uttar Pradesh government submitted that an inquiry report by the Lucknow District Commissioner Vijay Shankar Pandey said that the plots in Gomti Nagar were alloted in a fraudulent manner and in violation of the prescribed norms.

The beneficiaries of the illegal allotments included C Rawath, father-in-law of Mulayam's son Akhilesh Yadav, and Anita Singh, then Special Secretary.

The apex court by its September 12,2005 interim order had restrained the state government from handing over of the possession of the plots to the allottees till further orders.

Source : PTI