Lucknow: The Enforcement Directorate is set to question the Airports Authority of India (AAI) chairman, V P Agarwal, and senior UP cadre IAS officer Durga Shanker Misra in connection with the irregularities committed in the Rs 129-crore contracts for construction of a new terminal at Lucknow's Amausi airport and another Rs 38-crore contract for upgradation of the Varanasi airport. The ED registered a regular case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with these irregularities related to the two projects at its Lucknow office on Thursday.
Misra was principal secretary to the chief minister during the Mayawati regime. Before that, he was chief executive officer (CEO) corporate vigilance, AAI, when the irregularities first came to light in early 2009. He was given the task of investigating the irregularities in the two contracts but it is alleged that instead of recommending penal action against the accused, he dismissed them as mere human errors and closed the files. The CBI during its preliminary inquiry into the case found Misra's action to be a "conscious connivance to conceal crime and cause losses to the exchequer".
21/04/12 Times of India
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