Fake gram Panchayat: Jalandhar Sessions Judge visits Dera Nurmahal on inquiry
Nurmahal, Oct 7 (UNI) Jalandhar District and Sessions Judge Rupinder Jit Chahal on Thursday visited Nurmahal Dera to inquire about village Diviya Gram.
Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Justice Anil Kshetarpal on Wednesday directed District and Sessions Judge to visit Nurmahal Dera and submit a report about village while hearing a civil writ petition challenging creation of a fake gram panchayat by the Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan (DJJS).
Puran Singh claiming to be former driver of DJJS head Ashutosh Maharaj (clinically dead but claimed to be in Samadhi) had filed a civil writ petition.
A panchayat department official on Wednesday submitted in the court that village Diviya Gram is existing.
Puran Singh has submitted in the court that a fake gram panchayat, village Diviya Gram, has been created in order to siphon off funds granted by the 14th Finance Commission as also the Local Area Development Fund and Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Act 2005. The Panchayat also receives grant from the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board.
He submitted that Nurmahal Naib Tehsildar in a reply under the RTI Act informed that there is no land on the name of this village in records of revenue department and sub divisional officer Power Com said that there is no power connection and power transformer in the village.
He submitted that block development office informed that this village received grants and received Rs 2.59 lakhs under MNREGA and number of houses in village is 59 but where these houses are no details are available.
Additional District Judge S S Dhaliwal, Chief Judicial Magistrate Amit Garg, ADC (D) Jaspreet Singh, DDPO Iqbal Singh, Nakodar DSP L S Ball, Nurmahal Naib Tehsildar Vijay Kumar and BDPO Pawanjeet Kaur were present on the occasion
The case will come up for further hearing on October 11.
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