The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of former UP chief secretary Neera Yadav and ex-IAS officer Rajiv Kumar in the 1993-95 Noida land allotment scam.
In Yadav's case, the court awarded a two-year imprisonment, reducing the sentence from three years which was awarded by the Allahabad High Court. The ex-chief secretary has already spent 14 months in jail.
Kumar too has been awarded two-year imprisonment.
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Yadav served as the chairperson and chief executive officer in-charge of Noida when the fraudulent allotment of land to a company called Flex Industries took place.
(With inputs from PTI and Times of India.)
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