LUCKNOW, Nov. 12 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is likely to register an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) within the next 10 days in the alleged recruitment scam involving 1,198 livestock extension officer posts during the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government in 2014. The move will pave the way for questioning former animal husbandry minister Raj Kishore Singh, retired IAS officer Yogesh Kumar and other accused.

A senior ED official confirmed that the agency was preparing to take up the case based on the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) investigation. The ED has sent an initial report to its Delhi headquarters and is examining the FIR and charge sheets to identify the alleged financial irregularities, beneficiaries an...