CBI likely to name BJP ex-leader's wife in encroachment case

Jammu, May 5

The CBI is likely to name the wife of a former BJP leader and revenue officers in a chargesheet to be filed in a case related to encroachment of a huge tract of government land for running an educational trust, officials said here on Wednesday.

The agency has already sent a letter to the J&K Revenue Department seeking sanction to prosecute one of their officers in connection with the case. The CBI has also set in motion the process to file a chargesheet against the chairperson of RB Educational Trust, the wife of a former BJP leader Lal Singh who was also quizzed in connection with the probe, officials said.

The CBI had in September last year registered a case against RB Educational Trust through its chairperson and Singh’s wife Kanta Andotra, former Kathua DC Ajay Singh Jamwal and former tehsildar of Marheen Avatar Singh.

Besides them, then Naib Tehsildar Chann Rorian (Marheen Tehsil) Des Raj, then Girdawar Ram Pal, then Patwari Sudesh Kumar and other unidentified persons were named in the FIR. — PTI