Chandigarh\/SAS Nagar : Punjab Vigilance Bureau today arrested former SAS Nagar District Development and Panchayat Officer (DDPO)<\/p>\n
Gurvinder Singh Sarao, Malvinder Singh BDPO and a Panchayat Secretary for committing misappropriation of about Rs. 8 crores regarding purchase of<\/p>\n
agricultural and commercial land at a cost of Rs. 23.62 crore for gram panchayat Jheurheri, SAS Nagar district with the compensation amount received from the<\/p>\n
government for acquisition of 36 acre panchayat land for construction of international airport. The Mohali court has sent all the accused for 2 days vigilance<\/p>\n
remand.<\/p>\n
Disclosing this here today Vigilance Bureau Chief Director-cum-ADGP Mr BK Uppal said the investigation into the land purchase scam in Fatehgarh Sahib and<\/p>\n
Mohali districts has revealed bungling of crores of rupees by the accused officers and private persons. In this case the Bureau has registered a case under<\/p>\n
Sections 409, 420, 465, 467, 471, 120-B IPC and Section 13 (1) (d) read with 13 (2) of Prevention of Corruption Act against the officers posted at that time<\/p>\n
which includes Gurvinder Singh Sarao DDPO, Malvinder Singh BDPO, Ravinder Singh Panchayat Secretary, Gurpal Singh Sarpanch Jheurheri besides Surinder<\/p>\n
Singh of Mulepur, Fatehgarh Sahib, Mohamad Sohel of Sector 79, Mohali, Darshan Singh of Hallomajra, Chandigarh UT, Swarn Singh of village Tiwana, Mohali<\/p>\n
district and Darshan Singh of Kanwarpur (Uksi Jattan), Patiala district.<\/p>\n
Mr Uppal informed that total 36 acres Shamlat Deh of gram panchayat Jheurheri in SAS Nagar district was acquired for construction of International Airport,<\/p>\n
Mohali for which Rs 1.50 crore per acre compensation was awarded and the government had released Rs 54.17 crore to the panchayat which were placed at<\/p>\n
the disposal of Director, Rural Development and Panchayats instead of Jheurheri Panchayat.<\/p>\n
He added that the Panchayats Department had also found irregularities in the purchase of land in two villages of Fatehgarh Sahib and Mohali district and pointed<\/p>\n
out connivance of department officers and others. “The land was shown to have been purchased at exorbitant rate than the prevailing market rate at far off<\/p>\n
places against the interests of Jheurheri panchayat without taking prior sanction from the competent authority as required under the Act and Rules of the<\/p>\n
department and crores of amount has been swindled by the Sarpanch, department officers and other private persons”, he added.<\/p>\n
Vigilance Chief said Gurvinder Singh Sarao, who is presently posted as Additional Deputy Commissioner at Mansa, along with accused BDPO and village<\/p>\n
Sarpanch did not get prior approval of the government before purchasing land at Fatehgarh Sahib and Mohali for the gram panchayat as per the laid down<\/p>\n
provisions. “The then DDPO Sarao had allowed the accused Sarpanch to purchase land though he is not competent to do so”, he informed.<\/p>\n
He added that accused Sarpanch in connivance with above mentioned officers and others had purchased more than 25 acres of agricultural land in village<\/p>\n
Karimpura and Kandipura in Fatehgarh Sahib district by spending a whopping sum of Rs 13.62 crore at a rate of Rs 54 lakh per acre approximately against the<\/p>\n
prevailing collector\u2019s rate of Rs 9.77 lakh. Even the market rate of the land in question was between Rs 15 lakh to Rs 17 lakh per acre. The accused have<\/p>\n
siphoned off about Rs. 6.45 crore by mentioning higher rates paid to the buyers. “As per the report of Deputy Commissioner Fatehgarh Sahib, the prevailing<\/p>\n
collector rate was 9.77 lakh per acre in the villages Karimpura and Kandipur in tehsil Bassi Pathana, where the land was purchased. The accused persons<\/p>\n
usurped an amount of Rs.6,45,56,656\/- of the Panchayat in this purchase of land”, said Mr Uppal.<\/p>\n
Vigilance Chief revealed that corruption has also been detected in the purchase of 6,700 Sq. Yards commercial land in Sanauli village, SAS Nagar by the above<\/p>\n
mentioned accused persons for Rs 10,11,70,000 crore. In this case the accused committed a fraud of Rs. 1.50 crore approximately and had mentioned higher<\/p>\n
rates than the paid amount the party. This land was purchased by the accused Sarpanch in connivance with his relative Darshan Singh of Village Kanwarpur<\/p>\n
(Uksi Jattan), Darshan Singh Hallomajra, UT Chandigarh and Swarn Singh of village Tiwana in Fatehgarh Sahib district. The then BDPO Sarao and DDPO Dhillon<\/p>\n
had accorded sanction to the gram panchayat Jheurheri to purchase land without approval of competent authorities, he informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chandigarh\/SAS Nagar : Punjab Vigilance Bureau today arrested former SAS Nagar District Development and Panchayat Officer (DDPO) Gurvinder Singh Sarao, Malvinder Singh BDPO and a Panchayat Secretary for committing misappropriation of about Rs. 8 crores regarding purchase of agricultural and commercial land at a cost of Rs. 23.62 crore for gram panchayat Jheurheri, SAS Nagar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22564,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22562\/revisions\/22564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}