A political fight has erupted here with the revelation of unauthorised investment of thousands of crores in scam-hit Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) by state power utilities between March 2017 and December 2018.
The period spans the successive governments of Akhilesh Yadav and Yogi Adityanath. On Saturday night, the Adityanath government recommended an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), even as two of the prime accused, suspended UP Power Corporation (UPPCL) employees viz. Praveen Kumar Gupta and Sudhanshu Dwivedi, were arrested by the police here.
Gupta had earlier served as secretary of the UP State Power Employees’ Trust and the