The Gautam Buddh Nagar Police Tuesday arrested the another accused in the Rs 126 crore Yamuna Expressway land scam, a senior officer said. Sanjeev Kumar Singh, a lawyer and a native of Bulandhahr, was held for his alleged involvement in the land fraud case linked to the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA). This is the fourth arrest in the last five days and the fifth overall in the five-year-old case in which 21 people including a former IAS officer, who also served as the YEIDA chairman, were named in the FIR, the officials said.

"Singh was the director of three firms-- Data Infrastructure, ANG and Himalaya-- involved in the fraud," Circle Officer, Greater Noida First, Nishank Sharma said. "For ANG, he had got seven to eight land registries done in his name while personally he had invested Rs 70 lakh in the fraud deals," he added.