Vigilance Bureau Files Chargesheet Against Amarinder, Others

Vigilance Bureau Files Chargesheet Against Amarinder, Others 10 Feb 2009, 1721 hrs IST, PTI Text: CHANDIGARH: The Vigilance Bureau filed a chargesheet against senior Congress leader and former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh and 15 others in connection with the Amritsar Imrpovement Trust scandal which saw him being expelled from the State Assembly earlier. The chargesheet was filed in the court of Mohali Special Judge R K Garg who summoned all the 16 accused in the case, including Amarinder on March four. Vigilance bureau sleuths quizzed Singh at his private residence Moti Bagh Palace in Patiala on Sunday last. The case was registered against Singh and others after he was indicted by a Punjab Assembly panel and expelled from the house. The case pertains to alleged irregularities in exempting about 32 acres of total land acquired by Amritsar Improvement Trust for private development near new Amritsar during his tenure as Chief Minister from 2002 to 2007. In an unprecedented action, the Punjab Assembly had, in September last year, expelled 66-year-old Singh, who represented Patiala, from the house after a nine-member house committee indicted him in the case.

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