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Punjab Vigilance says Chahal
behind fake case
MUKTSAR: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has claimed that an inquiry has
established that B.I.S. Chahal, the then media adviser to former
chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh, had gotten a false case
registered against the relatives of Jaskaran Singh Brar, whose
petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court had led to the removal
of seven DSPs recruited under the sports quota in 2004. Chahal's son
was among the seven.
The internal VB inquiry, conducted by an officer of the DSP rank,
and whose findings were corroborated by the Joint Director
(Prosecution), found that Teja Singh and Balkaran Singh, Jaskaran's
father and brother, respectively, had committed no criminal offence.
Consequently, the Bureau withdrew the case from the court, thus
acquitting both.
The Bureau had registered a case against Teja and Balkaran on the
charge of recommending the case of Partap Kaur, alias Gurnam Kaur,
of Bhagsar village for old-age pension of Rs 200 per month in 1996
even though the pensioner's husband had 8 acres in his name. Teja
was a numbardar and Balkaran a panch of the village at the time of
the recommendation.
23 April 2008
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