Notice to AJL, Cong leader Vora on ED plea

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 10

Justice Surinder Gupta of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to Associated Journals Limited and senior Congress leader Motilal Vora for November 7 on a petition filed by the Enforcement Directorate.

It had challenged the validity of the “status quo” order passed by an appellate authority in favour of Associated Journals Limited on June 4 on its appeal against the attachment of a plot in Sector 6, Panchkula.

The Enforcement Directorate had registered an enforcement case information report (ECIR) on July 15, 2016, against Associated Journals Limited on the allegation that Haryana’s former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda had re-allotted the plot to Associated Journals Limited on a request made by Vora by ignoring the provisions of law and the opinion of all the officers against such re-allotment. After the notice, the ED passed an order of provisional attachment of property on December 1, 2018.