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The plea was from Jaskaran Singh, naib tehsildar, Greater Mohali Development Authority (GMADA), an accused in the scam, seeking protection from arrest..
The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of a revenue official who recommended the release of 123 crore to landowners in the infamous guava compensation scam reported in Mohali.k)..
Although the petitioners silence or lack of dissenting note might not be an offence, the petitioner was duty-bound to point out the ground reality of a guava orchard and the age of the plants by referring to the girdawari, which he failed to do in his report, the bench of justice Anoop Chitkara observed while dismissing the plea..
It was on March 27, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided over 20 locations across Punjab, including the houses of state excise and taxation commissioner Varun Roojam, a 2004-batch IAS officer and Ferozepur deputy commissioner Rajesh Dhiman, a 2014-batch IAS officer, in connection with a money-laundering in the compensation scam..
According to the FIR, Bhupinder Singh, a resident of Bakarpur and a property dealer, in connivance with officials/employees of GMADA, revenue and horticulture departments, started planting guava orchards on the agriculture land by getting land on general power of attorney..
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