High court orders CBI probe in ₹100-crore Zirakpur land grab case
Hindustan TimesThe Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the alleged attempt to grab eight acres of prime land abutting the upscale VIP Road in Zirakpur. The petitioner trust, Guru Nanak Vidya Bhandar Trust, Daryaganj, New Delhi, had moved the high court in February, seeking transfer of the probe to CBI. The bench of justice Pankaj Jain also directed the high court registry to send the case file to the administrative judge for “information and necessary action” about a Bathinda judicial officer, Navreet Kaur, arrayed as a party. As of role of the judicial officer, it was alleged that a Bathinda lawyer, Vikas Kumar, who had also appeared in the dispute in Mohali, “clandestinely” shifted the forum of litigation to Bathinda, where the case was taken up by judicial officer Navreet Kaur, who passed orders in an unrelated case, seeking record of the trust and also examination of some witnesses to “pressure” complainants from the trust.