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Housing project: Punjab CPS faces criminal complaint
Tribune News Service

The case NK Sharma’s (pic) company is constructing Savitry Greens II, a residential project in Gazipur village, Zirakpur The project reportedly does not have air and water environmental clearances A complaint has been filed before the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate at Dera Bassi.

Chandigarh, November 29
Punjab Pollution Control Board has filed a criminal complaint against the real estate firm owned by Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) N K Sharma for constructing a residential project in Zirakpur without obtaining the necessary environmental clearances.

The CPS, who is also the treasurer of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal, runs a company N K Sharma Enterprises. The company is constructing Savitry Greens II, a residential project, at Gazipur village in Zirakpur. The project reportedly does not have any air and water environmental clearances. Sharma’s company has gone ahead with the construction work without getting the NOCs under provisions of Water Pollution Act and the Air Pollution Act.

Earlier, in its letter dated November 15, Punjab Pollution Control Board had directed environmental engineer, Punjab

Pollution Control Board, regional office, Mohali, to treat this as most urgent matter. He was told to file a complaint against the project proponent and send an action taken report.

It is now learnt that the complaint has been filed before the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate at Dera Bassi. The next date of hearing in the case has been fixed on December 4.

This is the second time that a criminal case has been filed against Sharma’s real estate firm. Savitry Greens in Bishanpura village, another real estate project, too did not have the mandatory environment clearance.

Congress spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira and Sharma have been at loggerheads for over a month now. It is as part of this feud that the Akalis targeted PPCC president Partap Singh Bajwa and his family members for their alleged shady land deals.

Reacting to the filing of the second complaint against Sharma, Khaira said, “Now with the filing of a second criminal complaint against NK Sharma, it has been established beyond doubt that he is a habitual offender of the law.”