Ludhiana Improvement Trust chief hails High Court decision

Kuldip Bhatia

Ludhiana, May 19

The Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) chairman Raman Balasubramanium has hailed the decision of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on fraudulent allotment of plots to housing cooperative societies in carving out 400-acre Model Town Extension scheme while ruling that FIR lodged 20 years ago in 2001 be taken to its logical conclusion. The HC has given three months time for setting up a special investigation team to complete the probe while also directing the Commissioner of Police to file his report in this regard.

Addressing a press conference here today, the chairman of the trust said even though it took two decades to expose the fraud committed by then officials and functionaries of the LIT but in the end ‘truth has prevailed’. He said with the intervention of the HC as many as 58 plots, some already allotted and others in the process, were saved from being misappropriated by unscrupulous persons.

“We have put the ongoing process for allotment of 33 alternative plots to the housing cooperative societies on the basis of bogus claims in abeyance, and action on plots already allotted would be taken in accordance with the police report and the HC verdict,” said Balasubramanium.

He also made it clear that no one would be allowed to misappropriate plots or properties of the LIT and henceforth criminal cases would be lodged against the guilty persons in cases of any irregularity or illegality found in the allotment of land or property.