Haryana assures help in Ambience Mall case

Chandigarh, January 18

The state government on Monday assured the Punjab and Haryana High Court of providing necessary assistance to the Central Bureau of Investigation in its probe in the Ambience Mall case.

The assurance came less than six months after Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Area Second Amendment and Validation Act, 2020 came into being. Already, a petition is pending in the High Court alleging that the Act was enacted with the sole purpose of nullifying judgment in the mall case.

As the issue came up for resumed hearing before the Bench of Justice Rajan Gupta and Justice Karamjit Singh, CBI counsel Sumeet Goel pointed out that difficulties were being faced by the CBI in tracing some witnesses and documents as the matter pertained to 1992.

Goel added this had also been stated by the CBI in the status report submitted during the proceedings before the Bench in a sealed cover.

He added the investigation, being carried out in a right earnest, was under the supervision of superior officers of the premier investigating agency and the court would be apprised of further progress in the matter on the next date of hearing. He also prayed for two months’ time for the purpose.

Taking a note of the submissions, the Bench asked Haryana Additional Advocate-General Ankur Mittal whether necessary assistance could be rendered to the CBI. Before parting with the case, the Bench granted the CBI time till March last week for submission of fresh status report. Ordering a CBI probe, the Bench had earlier quashed an order paving way for construction of Ambience Mall in Gurugram on area initially earmarked as residential. — TNS

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