06-21-2008, 03:36 AM
Vigilance Bureau files DA case against Amarinder
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Friday filed a case against former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and his son Raninder Singh in a case relating on the charge of amassing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income and summoned them for questioning on July six<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The PVB in its FIR registered at a police station in Patiala said the declared income of Amarinder and Raninder in 2001-02 was Rs 4.81 lakh and Rs 4.96 lakh respectively and the combined income of the father and son during for five years from 2002, when he became the Chief Minister, was about Rs one crore.
But in the five years that Amarinder was Chief Minister over Rs six crore was deposited in 20 bank accounts held in the name of Amarinder, his Lok Sabha MP wife Preneet Kaur, their son Raninder and his wife Rishma Kaur. The deposits in these banks exceed their combined and total declared income by over Rs 4.50 crore, the Bureau claimed.
The Bureau charged Amarinder with spending money to procure property, including land, at various places in Punjab (including Patiala and Kharar), at Greater Noida, Goa, Faridabad and Gurgaon besides abroad, including London, the USA, Canada, Sweden and Dubai.
The former Chief Minister has also been charged with securing shares in projects started at Gurgaon (a mall), Bahadurgarh (vehicle agency) and Baddi (a factory) and sending money abroad allegedly through illegal means and procuring vehicles. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Friday filed a case against former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and his son Raninder Singh in a case relating on the charge of amassing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income and summoned them for questioning on July six<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The PVB in its FIR registered at a police station in Patiala said the declared income of Amarinder and Raninder in 2001-02 was Rs 4.81 lakh and Rs 4.96 lakh respectively and the combined income of the father and son during for five years from 2002, when he became the Chief Minister, was about Rs one crore.
But in the five years that Amarinder was Chief Minister over Rs six crore was deposited in 20 bank accounts held in the name of Amarinder, his Lok Sabha MP wife Preneet Kaur, their son Raninder and his wife Rishma Kaur. The deposits in these banks exceed their combined and total declared income by over Rs 4.50 crore, the Bureau claimed.
The Bureau charged Amarinder with spending money to procure property, including land, at various places in Punjab (including Patiala and Kharar), at Greater Noida, Goa, Faridabad and Gurgaon besides abroad, including London, the USA, Canada, Sweden and Dubai.
The former Chief Minister has also been charged with securing shares in projects started at Gurgaon (a mall), Bahadurgarh (vehicle agency) and Baddi (a factory) and sending money abroad allegedly through illegal means and procuring vehicles. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->