Though Director of Krrish Buildtech is not named as accused, CBI court summons him

Bhartesh Singh Thakur
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 10 

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Despite the CBI not making Amit Katyal, Director of Krrish Buildtech as accused in an individual capacity in a case related to Gurugram land release case, CBI Special Court, Haryana, has summoned him as an accused.

The court in its order dated, March 9, said that “it has also been held that prima facie case to summon additional accused, namely, Amit Katyal, Director, M/s Krrish Buildtech Pvt. Ltd. (now M/s Brahma City Pvt Ltd) is also made out”, for committing offences punishable for criminal conspiracy read with cheating and forgery and Prevention of Corruption Act.

Earlier, CBI Special Judge, Haryana, Panchkula, Jagdeep Singh, on February 11, had questioned that when there was a specific mention in the chargesheet that “in furtherance of the criminal conspiracy entered with Amit Katyal, director of M/s Krrish Builtech Pvt Ltd, despite having major discrepancies, accused JS Redhu (then Chief Town Planner in Town and Country Planning office) dishonestly and fraudulently, proposed to seek approval of the government to grant licence to the accused company, by releasing notified land of 130 acres from acquisition proceedings, thereby causing cheating to the related landowners/HUDA/State of Haryana”, Katyal had not been arrayed as an accused.

Investigating Officer (IO) DSP Kailash Sahu was even asked to file an affidavit in this regard.

Sahu told the Special Court on March 1 that the CBI stood by its challan and the “competent authority” had decided on it.

The IO had also mentioned that further investigation of the case had been kept pending on the point of ascertaining the role of other coloniser companies in the case as well as other licence cases as mentioned in the FIR.

Besides Redhu, former Assistant Town Planner Satish Kumar Arora and former Deputy Superintendent Rajbir Singh, both from the Town and Country Planning (TCP) Department, are named as accused in the challan along with M/s Krrish Builders for cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act.

The case pertained to the release of notified land in sectors 58 to 63 and 65 to 67 of Gurugram. As a result out of 1417.07 acre notified land, the award was announced for only 85.95 acre in 2012.

The next date of hearing is March 22.