100 Cr Emergency Funds Spent On College? Mulayam Asked To Explain

New Delhi: Mulayam Singh Yadav was taken to task today by the Supreme Court today for allegedly diverting around Rs 100 crore from emergency funds of Uttar Pradesh for a college in his constituency.

The court has asked Mulayam Singh and his brother Shiv Pal Yadav to explain funds poured from the state contingency funds into the Charan Singh Degree College in the Samajwadi Party chief's Etawah constituency.

They have to reply within four weeks.

Mulayam Singh's son Akhilesh Yadav rules Uttar Pradesh.

The court acted on a petition that alleged that since 2004, almost Rs 100 crore were sent to the college managed by Mulayam Singh's family trust.

The court questioned whether the national auditor examined the case and asked for an audit on the finances of the college in the past 10 years.

Shiv Pal Yadav's lawyer claimed that the state "contingency funds" were used after a law was enacted to allow money to be taken from it.

Chief Justice TS Thakur then said: "If a person in the government takes out 100 crores and builds a bungalow and gets it passed by the assembly, then does the judiciary not have power to scrutinize this?"

The court will take up the case again on April 21.