To pressure NRI fugitive to return, court attaches her land in Samrala
Wednesday, 11/12/2013
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LUDHIANA: To pressure an NRI proclaimed offender to return to the country, a court here has attached her 4.5-acre farmland in Maunpur village, Samrala, near here.
The order was passed recently after the NRI police approached the court.
This is the first time that the property of an NRI accused has been attached. The action has been taken to pressure Daljit Kaur, who is accused of demanding dowry from daughter-inlaw, to join proceedings in connection with the case registered against her at the women’s police station here.
Now, the accused will not be able to sell or rent out the piece of land in question. To unattach the property, Daljit Kaur will have to join investigations.
In her police complaint on May 3, 2012, Ranjit Kaur of Mansooran village, Ludhiana, had alleged that she was harassed for dowry by her husband Gurjot Singh Sekhon, father-Inlaw Kamaljit Singh and motherin-law Daljit Kaur. The accused were of the same village.
Ranjit Kaur claimed that she married Gurjot on January 26, 2011. However, soon after the marriage, her husband and inlaws allegedly started harassing her for dowry. Later, the inquiry of the case was marked to NRI police station.
Inspector Beant Juneja, station house officer (SHO) of NRI police station, said that Gurjot Singh and Kamaljit Singh had joined proceedings in the case, but Daljit Kaur had fled to Canada. She was declared a proclaimed offender on November 8, 2012. After a policy to attach property of NRI fugitives was introduced, the NRI police station approached court, following which the agricultural land was attached.
Juneja said they had started proceedings in court to attach properties of other NRI proclaimed offenders, too. “There 22 are NRI fugitives in our list,” he said.
