Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh August 5-
The Punjab VB on Monday has arrested Jaskaran Singh Brar, Naib-Tehsildar, who was co-accused in the multi crore guava compensation scam in Mohali after he surrendered before the Bureau.
Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said Brar was nominated as an accused after his role was revealed during investigation that he connived with the main accused in releasing wrongful compensation to illegal beneficiaries. Before release of payments, it had surfaced on record that names and shares of some landowners were not in accordance with the revenue records and some names have been added in the list of the beneficiaries wrongly without any basis as they had purchased land after issuance of notification under section 11 of the Land Aquisition Act.
Moreover, the said Naib Tehsildar had ignored tampered Khasra girdawari records and committed undue haste in recommending the release of payments by dealing the noting file thrice in a single day.
The spokesperson informed that initially Brar was granted interim relief with directions to join investigation by the Punjab and Haryana High Court vide its order dated 11/12/2023. Subsequently, he joined the investigation but remained non-cooperative with the Bureau.
