Source:
Bhaskar News
Chandigarh:
The High Court has ordered the formation of a special Judicial
Tribunal to probe land encroachment cases against Chief Minister
Prakash Singh Badal, DGP Sumedh Singh Saini and other big shot
politicians. HC has directed the Justice(Retd) Kuldeep Singh to head
the Judicial Tribunal for an unbiased probe.
The
Punjab & Haryana High Court, on Tuesday, ordered the tribunal to
submit case reports in every four months. The court ordered a probe
under the tribunal to establish whether the land possessed by the top
politicians including CM Badal and DGP Sumedh Singh Saini was ever
public, shamlat or common-land.
The
court’s order came after a PIL was filed pertaining to grabbing and
encroachment on shamlat/common land by the high-ups in the UT
periphery. The cases will now come up for hearing on May 28.
The
High Court had questioned the ‘clean chit’ given by the Punjab
government to its ‘elite group’ of 60 high-ups. The court had
raised eyebrows over the change in entries of land from public to
private, owned by 60 high-ups in the periphery of Chandigarh.
The
High Court bench refused to believe the investigation undertaken by
the Punjab government to be transparent and fair. It further made it
clear that the probe would be conducted by a Judicial Tribunal headed
by Justice(Retd) Kuldeep Singh.
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