The court docket of further district classes decide Sandeep Kumar Singla rejected the anticipatory bail plea of ​​Jasmin Kaur, the spouse of Ferozepur deputy commissioner Rajesh Dhiman, within the multi-crore guava orchard compensation rip-off case.

The court docket has additionally rejected the bail pleas of Kulwinder Kaur and Manpreet Kaur, spouse and daughter of key conspirator Bhupinder Singh Bhinda.

The Punjab vigilance bureau (VB) on Tuesday claimed to have unearthed a rip-off whereby compensation was wrongfully obtained by the accused throughout land acquisition by the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) in Bakarpur village, Mohali, from 2016 to 2020. Eight individuals, together with a income official, are stated to be concerned within the rip-off, that allegedly runs into over 100 crores. The complete rip-off was carried out in connivance with officers of state horticulture and income departments, stated the vigilance officers.

The accused have been booked below Sections 409, 420, 465, 466, 468, 471, 120-B of IPC and Section 13(1) (a), 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act at VB police station, Flying Squad -1, Punjab, at Mohali.

The accused has supplied to return the compensation quantity, however the court docket rejected their plea for bail. The public prosecutor acknowledged earlier than the court docket that the accused individuals obtained a compensation of 5,500 for every guava plant.

ED seeks information

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sought information pertaining to the rip-off from GMADA. In a communiqué to the chief administrator of GMADA, the ED acknowledged that because the sections invoked below IPC and the prevention of corruption act are scheduled offenses below the prevention of cash laundering act, inquiries are being carried out by the directorate within the topic case.

ED additional acknowledged that the accused individuals, by colluding with officers of horticulture division of Punjab and the land income division, wrongfully obtained compensations for the guava orchards from the federal government for which the accused weren’t entitled to.

“In this regard, it’s requested that the required instructions could also be given to the officer involved to offer any doc submitted by the accused claiming for the stated compensation, particulars of funds made by GMADA or authorities of Punjab for the guava orchids for buying stated lands and different particulars of the financial institution accounts into which the funds of the wrongfully claimed compensation have been transferred, the ED communique talked about.