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CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered a Central Bureau of Investiga- – tion (CBI) probe into allegations of claiming 28 crore compensation in a land acquisition case by filing false affidavits by the family members of a former Lt General in Ludhiana. The court also said the Punjab Police did not examine the role of an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Ahbaab Singh Grewal, who received a huge amount of money from the beneficiaries. a

The land in question belonged to Lt General Sant – Singh, who died in 1975. While 5 the property dispute proceed- ings were underway before a Ludhiana court, Amarjeet Kaur, wife of his son Sardool Singh and her two daughters-Sanjeet Kaur and Geetinder Kaur-filed a claim for land compensation with three different affidavits that there was no litigation epending on the property.

The affidavits were filed by Amarjeet, with power of attor ney from both the daughters, The amount of 228 crore was released to all three of them in 2021 for the land acquired by the National Highways Author- ity of India (NHAI) for the poses of the Delhi-Katra Expressway.

When Suneet Kaur, daughter of Lt General, who was party to the pending property dispute, came to know about it, she com- plained to the SSP (Rural) Lud- hiana alleging that while civil proceedings were underway, compensation was secured by the trio using false affidavits. Ludhiana police filed a criminal case against Amarjeet Kaur

TRANSFERRING THE CASE LODGED ON OCT 15, 2022 ΤΟ CBI, THE HC ASKED IT TO COMPLETE THE PROBE IN SIX MONTHS

but exonerated her daughters. It was against this decision of the police that Suneet approached the high court seeking a probe by an independent agency. The bench of justice Jasjit

Singh Bedi, after perusing ments of the case observed that the daughters have been exon- erated on “farcical grounds”. “They were aware that the civil proceedings were pending. They received crores of rupees in their bank accounts as com- pensation for the acquired land. Stamp papers had been pur- purchased by them. Merely because they had given powers of attor ney to their mother cannot absolve them of their apparent culpability,” the court recorded adding that during the probe the SP (Headquarters). Ludhi ana, had come to the correct conclusion of their liability as well as that of their mother, but this was overlooked.

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