DEHRADUN: In a significant judgment, Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday directed Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank government to order an inquiry into how Citurjia Biochemicals Company was allowed conversion of 30 acres of land from industrial to residential.
The inquiry by an independent agency, the bench said, will also look into the role of CM, former chief secretary N S Napalchyal and 17 other senior officers in the scam which left the exchequer poorer by Rs 300 crore.
The bench, however, left the choice of independent agency to the government. Swami Darshan Bharti and two others who had filed the petition on September 18, said they will move the Supreme Court against the judgment. Bharti said the bench should have ordered a CBI probe into such a major scam.
The bench also asked the district magistrate concerned to immediately take possession of the entire 51 acres of land as per the terms and conditions of the deal between Citurjia company and then undivided UP government headed by CM N D Tiwari in 1970. As per the deal, the land which was allotted for industrial development in Rishikesh is to be returned to the government in the event of company being declared sick.
The bench of Chief Justice Barin Ghosh and Justice B K Bisht has also quashed all orders concerning change of land use, including permission granted by the Nishank government. Sensing the court's mood earlier, the government on its own had first suspended and then withdrawn the orders on land use conversion.
Read more: Order inquiry into land scam & probe CM role, says HC - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Order-inquiry-into-land-scam-probe-CM-role-says-HC-/articleshow/7181617.cms#ixzz19US7oJ7C
The inquiry by an independent agency, the bench said, will also look into the role of CM, former chief secretary N S Napalchyal and 17 other senior officers in the scam which left the exchequer poorer by Rs 300 crore.
The bench, however, left the choice of independent agency to the government. Swami Darshan Bharti and two others who had filed the petition on September 18, said they will move the Supreme Court against the judgment. Bharti said the bench should have ordered a CBI probe into such a major scam.
The bench also asked the district magistrate concerned to immediately take possession of the entire 51 acres of land as per the terms and conditions of the deal between Citurjia company and then undivided UP government headed by CM N D Tiwari in 1970. As per the deal, the land which was allotted for industrial development in Rishikesh is to be returned to the government in the event of company being declared sick.
The bench of Chief Justice Barin Ghosh and Justice B K Bisht has also quashed all orders concerning change of land use, including permission granted by the Nishank government. Sensing the court's mood earlier, the government on its own had first suspended and then withdrawn the orders on land use conversion.
Read more: Order inquiry into land scam & probe CM role, says HC - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Order-inquiry-into-land-scam-probe-CM-role-says-HC-/articleshow/7181617.cms#ixzz19US7oJ7C
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