NRI fights back land mafia
Friday, 09/09/2011
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NRI Mohinder Singh, resident of California is running from pillar to post trying to save his old constructed property worth Rs 10 crore in Jalandhar from being grabbed.
Mohinder Singh alleges that the Jalandhar Improvement Trust officials in connivance with land mafia have made an attempt to grab the same by forging a power of attorney in the name of one Mohinder Singh, son of late Kapoor Singh.
The power of attorney was somehow got embossed from the office of the Commissioner.
But, before the power of attorney could be used to sell off the property, worth Rs 10 crore, the information reached the NRI proprietor Mohinder Singh, son of late Sadhu Singh originally resident of Maqsudan in Jalandhar.
An FIR was lodged in which, Kulwinder Singh, Mohinder Singh, Inderjit Singh and Ravinder Singh Nano were named as the accused.
According to Mohinder Singh, finding themselves in hot waters, the accused in connivance with the officials of the Improvement Trust got a notice issued that he owed the government a sum of about Rs 34 lakh as non-construction charges, where as the said property was built some 40 years ago by the late Sadhu Singh, the father of the complainant.
The Improvement Trust, Jalandhar Chairman, Baljit Singh Neel Mahal when contacted said that the recovery notice was sent on the basis of official records available with the Improvement Trust.
And if the proprietor Mohinder Singh could show documents about his ownership and old construction to the Improvement Trust, the penality notice would be withdrawn.
It is worth mentioning that the matter was taken up in a sangat darshan of Punjab NRI Minister Balbir Singh Bath wherein all the relevant documents were shown and given to the Improvement Trust officials.
Despite the intervention of the NRI Minister, the penality notice had not been withdrawn.
Punjab NRI Sabha Chief Kamaljit Singh Hayer felt that the attempts were being made to grab several properties of the NRIs and state government needed to pass a special law to protect them, so that NRIs kept investing in India.
