New Delhi, Mar 31 : The Supreme Court on Monday refused to order investigation into Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan's connection with the Barabanki land deal case in Uttar Pradesh.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to order investigation into Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan's connection with the Barabanki land deal case in Uttar Pradesh.
The apex court dismissed the petition filed by Uttar Pradesh Government challenging the Allahabad High Court's order restraining it from initiating any criminal, civil or revenue proceedings against Bachchan in the case. n December 11, 2007, the High Court had given a clean chit to him, observing that there was no finding that he himself committed any fraud or manipulated any surreptitious entry in the revenue records. enior advocate K K Venugopal, appearing for the State Government, contended that there was a case of manipulation in revenue records which ultimately benefited Bachchan and it needed to be investigated.
Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh Government had stated that Bachchan had allegedly committed another fraud by claiming that he was a resident of 17, Clive Road, Allahabad, while filing his application for allotment of farmland in Barabanki District.
The previous Mulayam Singh Yadav Government had allotted about 70,000 sq ft of prime land at Daulatpur village to Bachchan.
The actor had managed to have documents issued in his name, which identified him as a farmer and on the basis of these, he got a 24-acre plot of agricultural land at Lonavla, Pune in the mid-1990s.
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