Pearl land sold despite SC order: AAP

Blurb: Says SAD, Cong govt failed to return people’s money

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 6

AAP MLA and kisan wing state president Kultar Singh Sandhwan today alleged that despite the Supreme Court stay on the sale and purchase of Pearl Company’s properties, land near Cycle Valley in Ludhiana was being sold by political leaders and higher officials.

Addressing mediapersons, Sandhwan accompanied by MLAs Jai Kishan Singh Rodi and Amarjit Singh Sandoa claimed like the Badals, CM Capt Amarinder Singh was defending the management of the company that “looted” crores of rupees from 30 lakh families in Punjab.

Sandhwan said company chief manager Nirmal Singh Bhangu and others allegedly invested people’s hard-earned money in their company and purchased lands without returning a single penny to them.

Neither the Akali regime nor the Congress government took steps to ensure money was returned to the people. Instead of sending Bhangu to jail, he was being provided security in luxury hospitals in the name of medical treatment, he claimed.

The AAP leader said the SC had in its 2016 order restrained the sale and purchase of company’s assets and constituted a committee headed by Justice Lodha to get the money of the investors returned.

Despite the order, part of 400 acres belonging to the company worth Rs 10,000 crore in Ludhiana was sold in connivance with higher officials and political leaders, alleged the AAP leader.

“Earlier soil and sand were sold from this land and now agriculture is being done there,” he alleged.