Continuing with the
series, The Tribune today reproduces operative portions of the report
pertaining to villages Sanauli and Sultanpur
Tribune News
Service
Chandigarh,
November 17
Like
in other Punjab villages around Chandigarh, sale of shares of public land on
the basis of unauthorised and illegal girdawaries in connivance with the
revenue officials has also been pointed out by the Special Tribunal headed by
Justice Kuldip Singh in Sanauli and Sultanpur villages.
Castigating
the elected village bodies, the Tribunal said that the Gram Panchayats instead
of exercising control on the land, became a party to the whole scenario.
Among
those persons whose names figure in the Tribunal's scrutiny are those of ADGP
Sanjiv Gupta and an Educational Trust run by close relatives of former Union
Minister and UT MP, Pawan Kumar Bansal.
Sanauli village
Referring
to Sanauli Village, the Special Tribunal stated, “The total area of the village
is 4435 bigha 4 biswa. The total Shamlat area in the village is 392 bigha 5
biswa. Out of the above total Shamlat land 97 bigha 17 biswa is being used and
utilized for common purposes. The jamabandi for the year 2010-11 shows that
land measuring 102 bigha 18 biswa has been given on 33 years lease to JTL
Education Foundation (a Trust) by the Gram Panchayat. Mutation No.10727 dt
13.2.2011 in this respect has been registered which shows that the lease is for
33 years.
“It
may be mentioned that the JTL Education Foundation trust which has taken the
lease of 33 years is named ”JTL Education Foundation” which was created by
Trust Deed dt 5.4.2010 at Chandigarh. Trustees are:
(i)
Sh. Mithan Lal Singla S/o late Jagan Nath Singla, R/o # 105, Sector 28-A,
Chandigarh
(ii)
Sh. Sandeep Gupta S/o Sh. Puran Chand Gupta, R/o # 6 Sector Astha Enclave, Near
Dashera Ground, Kharar, district Mohali and
(iii)
Sh.Chetan Singh S/o Sh.Madan Mohan Singh, R/o 105, Sector 28-A, Chandigarh. The
photo copy of the Trust deed on record shows that the Trust was registered on
21st April, 2010.
“The
lease for 33 years was given by the Gram Panchayat for educational purposes
purporting to be under rule 6(3) of the Punjab Village Common Lands
(Regulation) Rules, 1964. It may be mentioned that there was no publicity etc
by the Panchayat land inviting educational institutions to apply for the lease.
“This
was one to one transaction. It may be mentioned that settler of JTL Education
Foundation Trust, provided in the Trust, a corpus of mere Rs.500/- for the
fulfillment of the objective of the Trust. This case has already achieved lot
of publicity in the newspapers as the members of this Trust have been linked as
close relations of Pawan Kumar Bansal, the former Railway Minister. It is
pertinent to mention that Civil Writ Petition No.16494 of 2012 Harshinder Singh
vs. State of Punjab etc, wherein the grant of 33 years lease deed to the JTL
Education Foundation has been challenged, is pending in the Punjab &
Haryana High Court and the next date is 24.7.2013.
Sultanpur
Village
Going
into revenue records of Sultanpur Village, Tribunal held, “The revenue record
of this village shows that 258 Kanal 15 Marla of land as Jumla Malkan Wa Digar
Haqdaran Hasab Rasad Rakba. According to the Halqa Patwari, Sh. Balraj Singh,
the jamabandis for the year 1972-73 & 1977-78 are not traceable on the
record.
“The
Mutation Register also starts with Mutation No. 678. Jumla Malkan land though
shown as that of the Jumla Malkan but in column of Kashtkar, the names of
individual right holders are shown. From December 1993 onwards, the persons’
named in Khana Kashtkar started selling their shares to different outsiders.
The jamabandi for the year 2006-07 shows as 236 Kanal 2 Marla as Jumla Malkan
but the names of the following persons who have purchased land from the
villagers are shown in the Kasht column (above).
Note:
(For Table 1) Though the land is shown under the ownership of Jumla Malkan and
as such of the Panchayat, it was being sold by the right holders (so called
Kashtkar) as their personal property. Transfers have been made by them through
sale as well as gifts etc.
Note:
(For Table 2) Despite the fact that the above mentioned mutation was not
sanctioned and in fact rejected by the A.C-2nd Grade, so called purchaser is
still shown as the owner in the Jamabandi of 2001-02 and thereafter including
the Jamabandi of 2006-07.
“The
land comprising the above mutations was allegedly sold by the Kashtkars namely
Tarlochan Singh, Kulwant Singh, Bhupinder Singh s/o Pritam Singh. Tarlochan
Singh etc are the right holders of the village. They have got done the
girdawaries in their favour.
(To be continued)
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