New Delhi, Oct 10: Acting on a document of indianarrative.Com posted on September 28, the Punjab government has directed the Revenue Secretary, Dilraj Singh Sandhawalia, to put up an in-depth report suggesting the next direction of legal and executive motion to be taken with regard to the Rs 1200 crore Patiala land rip-off.

The land is placed on the well-known Baradari Gardens inside the coronary heart of Patiala and authorities places of work had been performing from the high location for over 80 years,

Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), KAP Sinha instructed indianarrative.Com nowadays that the authorities had “taken cognisance of the news file and asked the Secretary of the Revenue Department to have a look at all components of the problem in session with criminal professionals and put up a document on the earliest.”

Sinha defined that when finishing the record work, the government is probable to report an enchantment inside the Punjab and Haryana High Court in opposition to the judgment of the trial court docket that acquitted all the accused in the allegedly fraudulent registration case pertaining to 6000 square yards of government land that became transferred to the names of personal humans. All important steps could be taken in a civil court docket, to get this registration cancelled, he added.

Dilraj Singh Sandhawalia, Secretary, Department of Revenue, stated that he might put up his report to the authorities within this week.

“I even have long past via the news document and have discussed the problem with the Additional Chief Secretary,” adding, “we’re at work on the matter.”

The Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala, Ranjit Kumar Jain surpassed an order on September 15 acquitting all of the accused within the criminal case registered by using the Vigilance Bureau in 2012 against the three buyers of the land and 4 facilitating officials.

The Session Court’s acquittal order strengthens the claim of the consumers of presidency land in the suit for ownership filed through them in a civil court of Patiala.

The then Parkash Singh Badal-led authorities, in its understanding, did not provide prosecution sanction with regard to an IAS officer Vikas Garg, now Secretary of the Transport Department who become referred to as one of the key figures in the rip-off. It helped him break out the criminal scrutiny of a tribulation in court. Garg changed into in advance posted because the Deputy Commissioner of Patiala while the sale-purchase deeds were registered at his instance, main to the committing of the fraud.

Garg’s predecessor DC Deepinder Singh, an IAS officer, had in his 7-page order, held that the sale-buy deeds of three consumers of the land couldn’t be registered as they have been looking to usurp high government land now valued at over Rs 1200 crore.