The Uttar Pradesh government has moved the Supreme Court seeking stay on a CBI probe into alleged corruption and irregularities by former Noida Chief engineer, Yadav Singh.<br/>The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had, on the 16th of last month, ordered a CBI probe against Singh.<br/>Seeking a stay, the UP government contended that the High Court had wrongly directed it to hand over the investigation to the central agency. Saying that the High court primarily acted on the request of the central government, the state government said that the fact that a judicial commission was already conducting an inquiry under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 was completely ignored while handing over the probe to CBI. The state government also said that there was no sufficient material to reach a prima facie conclusion that there was a need for a CBI inquiry or any other specialised agency.<br/>CBI has already registered two cases against Singh. It also conducted searches on Tuesday at 14 places – 12 in Noida and Greater Noida and one each in Agra and Firozabad. The investigating agency continued raids yesterday as well.