Cong offers legal aid to Hoshiarpur land scam victims
Thursday, 30/06/2016
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Hoshiarpur : The Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee will give legal aid to all affected victims of the Piplanwala land scam, which was unearthed recently, in which more than Rs 100 crore were minted by a few Akali leaders by grabbing the land of villagers. Visiting the village on Wednesday, leader of opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha Charanjit Singh Channi, along with Sham Sunder Arora, MLA Hoshiarpur, met those affected and listened to their grievances.
The people told the CLP leader that how they were fooled into selling off their land. Channi assured the victims of every help from the Punjab Congress. He also appealed to the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court to take suo motu notice of this land scam in order to give justice to the aggrieved people.
Lambasting the SAD-BJP leaders for their alleged corrupt practices, he said that the Congress doesn’t have faith in the inquiry being done by the state government and it should be immediately handed over to the CBI for investigation.
