AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (TIWN): BJP led State Govt’s lawyers have demanded 10 days police remand of former Chief Secretary Yash Pal Singh.

He was produced before the court after brought from UP today morning.

Singh has been an honest person and holding a spotless career but was dragged to Tripura after retirement in PWD construction work of 2008.

As the then Principal Secretary of PWD, Y.P.Singh just had used the power to take decision which he had as the officer but after 12 years of passage, when Govt changed BJP Govt’s political vendetta politics which is trying to put Deputy Opposition leader Badal Chowdhury in jail and to scrap his next election’s nomination filling chance is now turning heavy on former officers, although the officers are selective and many officers’ names dropped from the investigation.

Tripura former Chief Secretary Yash Pal Singh was arrested on Monday in connection with a fabricated multi-crore PWD scam from Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district in a joint operation by the police of the two states.