Lucknow, October 16: Senior Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and his wife Pankaja Kumari Singh have been booked for alleged financial fraud amounting to about Rs 500 crore, a senior police officer said here today.
An FIR was lodged yesterday at Babupurwa police station in Kanpur, accusing the SP general secretary and his wife of amalgamating companies for converting black money into white, Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal told PTI.
The name of actor Amitabh Bachchan has also figured in the 14-page complaint as director of one of the companies, the ADG said.
The complaint alleged that between 2003-2008, Singh and his wife had allegedly amalgamated their companies with other holdings and had amassed nearly Rs 500 crore in the process, DIG (Kanpur) Neera Rawat said. The complainant has been identified as one Shiv Kant Tiwari.
–PTI