Neera Yadav

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Neera Yadav
Born
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater Welham Girls' School, Dehradun
OccupationFormer officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
Known forIAS officer convicted for fraud
Criminal charge(s)Misuse of official position, fraud
Criminal penaltyFour years' rigorous imprisonment
Criminal status Convicted
SpouseMahendra Singh Yadav

Neera Yadav is a former officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) who was convicted of fraud. She is originally from Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India, [1]

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Early life

Yadav studied at Welham Girls' School, Dehradun. She was part of the 1971 batch of IAS service graduates. She is married to Mahendra Singh Yadav, an officer of the Indian Police Service who later resigned from the service to pursue his political career. [2]

Career

She was posted to different positions in the bureaucracy in Uttar Pradesh. She became well-known as district magistrate of Jaunpur district during the flood crisis for her daring rescue operations. [3] Later she was selected among the top three most corrupt IAS officers of Uttar Pradesh in a vote of her colleagues. [4] [5] She was appointed the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, later resigning the position after a decision by the Supreme Court of India, thus becoming the second IAS officer in succession after Akhand Pratap Singh to have done so. [6] [7]

After retirement, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2009 but resigned after media questions over the decision. [8] [9] [10]

Crime

In December 2010 Yadav was sentenced to four years' rigorous imprisonment after being convicted of misusing her official position as IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh to allot land fraudulently in Noida to Flex Industries, owned by industrialist Ashok Chaturvedi. [11] [12] [13]

On 20 November 2012 a special CBI court sentenced Neera Yadav to 3 years' imprisonment for the Noida plot scam that happened between 1993-1995. [14] [15] At that time she was serving as the Noida Authority CEO. [14] She fraudulently allotted one plot for herself, one for her husband and one each for her two daughters [a total of 4 plots for her and her family], [14] knowing that the rules allowed only one plot of land to one family. [16]

On 2 August 2017 the Supreme Court of India sentenced Neera Yadav to two years' imprisonment in the Noida land allotment scam. [1]

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