Rajmeet Singh
Chandigarh, January 13
A day after the arrest of former Industries Minister Sunder Sham Arora in connection with the controversial Gulmohar Township case, fresh facts have come to light.
On visiting the site today, a team of Vigilance Bureau (VB) officials, accompanied by Arora, noticed certain inconsistencies and also found a hotel being constructed on one of the sold sites measuring 25 acres.
The Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation (PSIEC) has told the VB that nothing wrong has been committed in the Gulmohar Township case in which IAS officer Neelima has been booked for alleged bifurcation of industrial plot and its saleto the real estate company.
The PSIEC in its reply to the state government and VB has categorically stated that the property is a freehold private property, and that the government has no right on it other than monitoring that the property is used for industrial purpose and to see that it follows the estate management rules.
Are the construction activity at the site, including construction of roads and providing basic amenities, in conformity with what has been approved on paper, the VB is learnt to have asked the PSIEC officials.
In 1984, PSIDC had allotted 25 acres to M/s Punjab Anand Lamp Industries Ltd. It was taken over by Philips India in 2002. In February 2021, a sale deed was executed between M/s Signify Innovations (formerly known…
