New Delhi:
The Allahabad high court given bail to former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Neera Yadav.
Yadav was found guilty of violating norms in allotting industrial land while she was the chief executive officer of Noida Authority in the 1990s.
The CBI court in Ghaziabad had sentenced her to four years imprisonment.
Yadav broke down after hearing the verdict against her.
Yadav is lodged in the high-security Dasna jail in Ghaziabad since December 7.
Yadav was accused of violating the rules to help a company named Flex Industries get an industrial plot in Noida in 1995 when she was the chairman of the Noida Development Authority. The chairman of Flex, Ashok Chaturvedi, was also sentenced to four years.
Yadav was the chief of the Noida Development Authority seven years ago. The Noida Entrepreneurs' Association filed cases against her accusing her of manipulating out-of-turn allotments to bureaucrats, politicians, industrialists and family and friends.
Yadav, the wife of a BJP politician, was appointed Chief Secretary in April 2005 when Mulayam Singh Yadav was UP's Chief Minister. She was dismissed on the orders of the Supreme Court on the basis of the multiple charges of corruption.