In the report sent to the Chief Minister, the Lokayukta, Justice (Retd.) NK Mehrotra, has recommended similar inquiries against all those involved in transaction of properties, including Naseemuddin Siddiqui’s legislator wife, Husna Siddiqui, and son Afzal Siddiqui.
In his report, the Lokayukta has said that the assets of the Minister and his family members were quite disproportionate to their income. He pointed out that in the income tax returns filed by Naseemuddin Siddiqui and his wife, the couple had shown their total incomes as Rs 1,93,85,196 during the last four years, while the properties purchased by them over this period was worth many times more than the income.
Giving details of the inquiry, the Lokayukta said the QF Educational Trust run by Cabinet Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui’s wife, Husna Siddqui, was found to be a dummy institution as most of its members mentioned on paper were ignorant of the office and other office-bearers of the trust.
The trust reportedly purchased 57 bigha land in Fatehpur tehsil of Barabanki on payment of Rs 40.32 lakh when its real cost, as per report of ADM, Barabanki, was Rs 16.39 crore. Husna Siddiqui had given a list of over 300 persons to the Lokayukta who, she said, had donated about Rs 1.82 crore to the trust, but the inquiry revealed the trust’s actual collections to be Rs 3.62 core.
The Cabinet minister’s son Afzal Siddiqui has set up a slaughter house — AQ Frozen Foods Private Ltd — at Amroha on 1.2370 hectare land. According to the report of the District Magistrate concerned, the actual area of the slaughter house premises is over 4 hectares and most of the land has been illegally occupied by the owner.
In his report, the Lokayukta has recommended inquiry into the source of Afzal Siddiqui’s income through which the land at Amroha was purchased.
Naseemuddin Siddiqui’s brother, Jamiruddin has been found guilty of purchasing undervalued properties in the name of his wife and daughter-in-law in Banda from Irrigation department engineer KK Gupta, who was given prime posting in Rajkiya Nirman Nigam (RNN) just after the deal was finalised.
In the inquiry, which was initiated following the complaint of JN Shukla, a resident of Lucknow, in November last year, the Minister has also been found guilty of undervaluing the cost of a huge bungalow in Cantonment area of the State capital.
The bungalow constructed on 16,500 square metre area was shown to have been purchased for just Rs 50 lakh, while its superstructure alone was evaluated to be over one crore rupees by the experts, the report said.
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