Former Tripura chief secretary
Yashpal Singh, who is a key accused in a multi-crore PWD scam, was on Wednesday remanded to police custody for four days by a local court.
He was arrested from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on Monday and brought here on transit remand.
West district and session court judge Sabyasachi Datta Purkayastha remanded Singh to police custody on Wednesday. The government advocate Ratan Datta had sought police custody for Singh for ten days.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Ghaziabad allowed the transit remand and Singh was brought back to state by the Tripura police crime branch during the day.
Inspector General (Law and Order) Puneet Rastogi said the former chief secretary had been evading arrest for almost five months. The Tripura police team had been carrying out raids for over a month in Ghaziabad.
A police official said that Singh was detained from IRS Apartments at Indirapuram in Ghaziabad on Monday and brought to Indirapuram police station for ...
