Kuala Lumpur, July 30
Former magistrate Balbir Kaur, one of Malaysia’s most sought after fugitives who had disappeared from here after being charged with corruption, has been living a life of comfort in a prime Chandigarh locality, a media report claimed today.
Balbir, a Malaysian Indian who jumped bail 19 years ago to escape the corruption charges, now goes by the name of Daljit Kaur and is married to an Indian national and they have three grown-up children, The New Straits Times said.
Balbir’s whereabouts would not have surfaced in daily if she had not attested a document transferring power of attorney to her sister here in connection with a dispute over a land owned by her family in Malaysia.
The paper said Kaur had gained weight and changed her hairstyle and checks by the daily showed that the 48-year-old fugitive owned a factory in Mohali and kept a low profile.
It quoted an unidentified policeman who lived in Balbir’s neighbourhood as saying that the lady had resided in the same three-storey house for several years.
The policeman identified the woman in the house as the same person wanted by Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Agency. He told the daily that the woman had arrived in Chandigarh “with a lot of money” after visiting New Zealand.
— PTI
