SC orders CBI probe into UP CM and family's assets

New Delhi, Mar 1 (UNI) The Supreme Court today directed the CBI to conduct a preliminary investigation into the alleged disproportionate assets of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and his family members.

Issuing the directions on a Public Interest Litigation filed by one Biswanath Chaturvedi, a Bench comprising Justices AR Lakshamanan and Altamas Kabir, observed ''It would subserve the public interest, morality and the chief minister's interest as well to have such a probe.'' UNI