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Vigilance arrested Vikas Arora, the third accomplice of Manpreet Badal, the main accused in the plot scam case in Bathinda, from Chintapurni on Monday morning. The two accused Rajiv Kumar and Amandeep Singh, who were arrested on Sunday, were produced in the court on Monday after undergoing medical examination by the vigilance, where the court sent both the accused to three-day police remand.
Along with this, a vigilance team raided the house of the main accused Manpreet Badal located in Lambi, while the other team raided the house of then ADC and BDA administrator Bikramjit Shergill, nominated in the said case, but both the accused were found absconding. Apart from this, efforts are being made by the vigilance team to arrest the sixth accused, Pankaj.
While sharing information with the media on Monday, the spokesperson of Vigilance said that a case has been registered against the accused only after investigation on the complaint of former MLA Saroop Chand Singla, the complainant in the said case. He said that the investigation found that during his tenure as Finance Minister from 2018 to 2021, Manpreet Badal bought two expensive plots of 1560 square yards in Model Town Phase 1 at a low price due to political pressure. Due to this, the government has suffered a loss of around 65 lakh rupees.
The spokesperson said that during the investigation of the complaint number 11-2022, it was found that the former finance minister using his influence with the connivance of BDA officials and employees uploaded fake maps during the bidding of plots in the year 2021 misleading the general public. were, so as to prevent the participation of the general public in the bidding process.
In the uploaded map plot number 725 was 560 yards, 726 which is 1000 yards was also shown as commercial instead of residential and the plot numbers were not shown in the map found on the online e-auction portal. A forged digital signature of BDA woman officer Balwinder Kaur was used to auction these plots.
The vigilance spokesperson said that the investigation revealed that the bid was made by the same lawyer Sanjeev Kumar from three bidders namely Rajeev Kumar, Vikas Arora and Amandeep Singh from the same IP address. Manpreet Badal, Superintendent Pankaj, Rajeev Kumar, Vikas Arora, Amandeep Singh and the then BDA Administrator Bikramjit Singh Shergill conspired to cheat the government and cause damage to the exchequer by purchasing the said plot at a low price.
The spokesperson said that efforts are being made to arrest Manpreet Badal, PCS officer Bikramjit Shergill and Superintendent Pankaj in the said case. Three accused Rajiv Kumar, Amandeep Singh and Vikas Arora have been arrested. A case has been registered at the police station vigilance bureau under the Corruption Act in addition to various sections against all the accused.
When former finance minister Manpreet Badal bought these two plots fraudulently, then Manpreet Badal organized a grand ceremony to lay the foundation stone for building the house. The then Chief Minister of the state Charanjit Singh Channi and other Congress leaders attended this meeting.
The objective was to collect votes in 2022
Manpreet Badal cheated his own government and the people of Punjab at a low price to use two commercial plots for housing in Model Town Phase 1 before the 2022 elections. After this, Manpreet Badal started telling people during the election campaign that he will stay in the city, so vote for him. Manpreet Badal created a drama of building houses in the said disputed plots for the purpose of collecting people’s votes in 2022, but the people were unhappy with the policies of Manpreet Badal. gave a blunt reply. To such an extent that he lost to former councilor Jagroop Gill of his own party by a huge margin. After this defeat, Manpreet continuously disappeared from the city.
BJP caught in January 2023 to avoid investigation
Sources have revealed that Manpreet Badal had joined the BJP in January 2023 to avoid investigation into the complaint lodged by BJP leader Saroop Chand Singla against Manpreet Badal, but still the complainant BJP leader Singla had made it clear that he was not aware of his complaint. Will not back down. .
In the FIR filed by Vigilance, it has been stated that Manpreet Badal had purchased stamp paper of Rs 100 each on 30 September 2021 and kept it with him and the agreement in this regard was written on 4 October 2021 and the same person was the witness on both the agreements. was kept BDA had issued the allotment letters of the plot in the name of Rajiv Kumar and Vikas Arora on October 8.
Fake maps uploaded with the connivance of BDA officials
It has been revealed in the vigilance investigation that Manpreet Badal hid the original maps to buy two expensive plots at a cheap price, while with the connivance of BDA officials and employees, fake maps were uploaded.
The vigilance investigation revealed that the then BDA administrator Bikramjit Singh Shergill and Superintendent Pankaj conspired with a woman officer of their own office to get the digital signature of Manpreet Badal to benefit her without her consent.
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