Court directs ex-MLA to vacate 32 acres in Bhiwani village

Sat Singh

Tribune News Service

Bhiwani, October 8

A local court has directed former INLD legislator Shashi Ranjan Parmar to vacate 32 acres in the district’s Paluwas village where the MLA’s Maharana Pratap Charitable Trust has been running several educational institutions.

The court has given a month to the MLA to vacate the land.

“The cost of the land is more than Rs 800 crore,” Pal Singh, outgoing sarpanch of Paluwas, said.

In 2001, then Paluwas sarpanch Dashrath had discreetly gifted 32 acres to Parmar’s trust. At that time, he was the MLA from the erstwhile Mundhal Assembly constituency, the defendants said. The then INLD government had approved the gifted land and mutation was done in the name of the Parmar’s trust. The land registry, however, was not executed. The next panchayat in 2007 had challenged the former’s sarpanch move to gift village land and submitted a complaint to the Deputy Commissioner, demanding an investigation.

The probe report was sent to the state government and a show-cause notice issued to the Trust to cancel the transfer of land.

The Trust had filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking transfer of land in its name on the basis of mutation it had got done in 2001.

“The Supreme Court had dubbed the suit non-maintainable and asked the local court to decide the matter expeditiously,” said Pal Singh, who retired as the Excise and Taxation Officer.

Civil Judge (Junior Division) Sandeep Yadav, in its order, said: “It is ordered that the present suit is hereby dismissed with no order as to costs and the counter-claim filed by defendant number 1 is decreed with costs to the effect that the plaintiffs are directed to deliver the vacant possession of the suit property to defendant number 1 within one month of passing of the instant judgment.”