Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, February 23
Coinciding with the ongoing Budget session, a number of allegations attempting to corner the state government are surfacing.
Non-issue: minister
- Bharat Bhushan Ashu denied the allegations and termed it a non-issue. “I had made a mention about the said case in all my election affidavits. The case and the so-called confession claimed by the police was scrutinised by the
judiciary and no case was made against me,” he said.
While the Opposition lapped up a reported statement of DGP Dinkar Gupta on possible attempts by Pakistan to use Kartarpur corridor for propaganda against India and insisted on stalling the proceedings of the Assembly on Monday despite the DGP’s clarification, a 32-year-old case involving Minister for Food Supply Bharat Bhushan Ashu also made public today.
The allegation has been made by a suspended DSP, Balwinder Singh Sekhon. He has produced judicial documents of May 1992, claiming the Ashu had harboured a group of terrorists responsible for triple murder and a bomb explosion in the crowded Gur Mandi in Ludhiana.
Sekhon was suspended late last year for accusing Ashu of irregularities in a real estate project and targeting Sekhon for exposing it as the inquiry officer.
Sekhon alleged that he was suspended because he had conducted probe at the orders of the then Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu.
He alleged Ashu had a made a confessional statement, but the police did not prosecute him in the case due to his influence. The allegations are also likely to be raked up in the Assembly. Ashu has denied the allegations and termed these as a non-issue.
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