Indian SC orders probe against Mulayam Singh
Reuters, New Delhi
The Supreme Court ordered a probe yesterday into allegations that the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh had illegally made around 1 billion rupees. The order against Mulayam Singh Yadav could prove to be an electoral setback for his Samajwadi Party that currently runs the state and faces polls in April and May. "It is in the chief minister's interest to have his name cleared," a two-judge bench of the court said, while ordering the Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct the probe. "A chief minister of a state should not function under a cloud," the court added. Yadav, a former defence minister, was not immediately available for comment. He has been chief minister of Uttar Pradesh since August 2003.
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