Resort developing on plot linked to PSIEC rip-off underneath Vigilance Bureau lens
Rajmeet Singh
Chandigarh, January 13
A day after the arrest of former Industries Minister Sunder Sham Arora in reference to the controversial Gulmohar Township case, recent info have come to gentle.
On visiting the positioning in the present day, a crew of Vigilance Bureau (VB) officers, accompanied by Arora, observed sure inconsistencies and likewise discovered a resort being constructed on one of many offered websites measuring 25 acres.
The Punjab Small Industries and Export Company (PSIEC) has advised the VB that nothing flawed has been dedicated within the Gulmohar Township case through which IAS officer Neelima has been booked for alleged bifurcation of commercial plot and its saleto the actual property firm.
The PSIEC in its reply to the state authorities and VB has categorically said that the property is a freehold non-public property, and that the federal government has no proper on it aside from monitoring that the property is used for industrial goal and to see that it follows the property administration guidelines.
Are the development exercise on the web site, together with development of roads and offering primary facilities, in conformity with what has been permitted on paper, the VB is learnt to have requested the PSIEC officers.
In 1984, PSIDC had allotted 25 acres to M/s Punjab Anand Lamp Industries Ltd. It was taken over by Philips India in 2002. In February 2021, a sale deed was executed between M/s Signify Improvements (previously referred to as Philips India) and Gulmohar Township.
The reply despatched by PSIEC to the state authorities and VB on the info talked about within the FIR towards the IAS officer and others said that there was nothing flawed and there was no loss to the federal government. However now, the VB is learnt to have raised recent queries.
These embrace that the clause of sale deed within the occasion of chapter of the corporate asks for surrendering the plot to PSIDC because the plot had allotted at concessional charges however how was it offered to M/s Signify Improvements?
The bifurcation coverage permitted by the federal government and Board of Administrators of the PSIEC permits bifurcation in case of authorized heirs, household disputes, in case of chapter and the prior permission for RERA, Air pollution Management Board and different authorities companies is required earlier than bifurcation plan is permitted by authority involved. However the plot was allegedly bifurcated.
Facilities like STP, sub-station, boundary wall, group centre, inexperienced park are required previous to approval of the constructing plans. Just one gate is allowed and on deposit of Rs 10,000, one other gate is allowed. However on this case, six gates had been allowed and there’s no boundary wall.
Arora despatched to judicial custody
- A courtroom on Friday despatched former minister Sunder Sham Arora to judicial custody within the PSIEC plot case. The VB took him to a web site the place a resort is being constructed
- Arora was already in judicial custody in one other case. Arora was introduced on manufacturing warrant from Ropar and produced in Mohali courtroom on January 12
Chief Secy to submit report in the present day
- Chief Secretary Vijay Kumar Janjua will probably be submitting his report on the registration of an FIR within the PSIEC land bifurcation case to CM Bhagwant Mann on Saturday
- The report will deal solely with the difficulty of whether or not the Vigilance Bureau overstepped and registered an FIR towards 14 individuals, together with IAS officer Neelima
- Two days in the past, VB chief Varinder Kumar had submitted 4 judgments that favoured registration of a case towards a authorities official with out looking for prior approval