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Mohali, August 20
A Mohali court today remanded WWICS director Davinder Sandhu, a co-accused in a corruption case involving former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini, in two-day police custody.
The Vigilance Bureau also arrested retired Senior Town Planner Sagar Bhatia, who too was remanded in two-day police custody.
A VB spokesperson said Sandhu allegedly colluded with Deputy Director Ashok Sika, Bhatia and others local government officials to get an agriculture land converted illegally into residential colonies at Kurali in 2013.
Also read: Ordering Sumedh Saini’s release, HC cites Badal-Capt rivalry
During probe, it emerged that Sandhu was known to PWD Xen Nimratdeep Singh, who allegedly received Rs 6 crore in bribe from Sandhu to get the colonies certified. Thereafter, Nirmratdeep, his father Surinderjit Singh Jaspal and their aides Taranjeet Singh Aneja and Mohit Puri were nominated as accused in the land conversion case. — TNS
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