Bathinda, January 31
Mr Surinder Mohan, Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), here today issued summons against the Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, the Science and Technology Minister, Mr Chiranji Lal Garg and the Additional Chief Administrator (PUDA), Mr Ajaib Singh Bhatti, for securing their appearance in person or through their counsel on February 12 in a civil suit filed against them by an advocate, Mr N.K. Garg, in connection with the alleged grabbing of government land measuring 400 acres.
Mr Garg stated that he had filed a civil suit against Mr Chiranji Lal
Garg, Mr Ajaib Singh Bhatti and Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, and the application has been moved under Section 340 of the Cr PC.
In the petition filed in the court of the
CJM, Mr Garg alleged that Mr Chiranji Lal Garg, purchased a plot measuring 1800 square yards in khasra number 2848, which was a shamlat land through a bogus transaction in 1970.
The petitioner alleged that the PUDA official and the Chief Minister had colluded with the minister instead of defending the government land which had been acquired for setting up a residential colony.
The petitioner further alleged that Mr Garg got the mutation of the land sanctioned on December 1 in 1983 on the basis of a high court decision. He claimed that the high court decision was vacated by the Supreme Court on May 5 in 1987 and Mr Garg had lost the case in special leave petition in the apex court.
He said when the government acquired 400 acres of land for setting up the residential colony in 1976, the plot purchased by Mr Garg through “bogus transaction”, too, was acquired. He alleged that all three respondents allowed encroachments on 400 acres of the land illegally, wrongfully and fraudulently and had been concealing material facts from the court. He pleaded their prosecution under Sections 193, 196, 465, 471, 120-B of the IPC, alleging that the respondents had allowed land grabbers to encroach on property worth Rs 400 crore due to “extraneous reasons and material considerations”.
