GURGAON LAND SCAM: HC pulls up Haryana govt for favouring Gandhi family!

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Headlines Today Bureau  | Chandigarh, August 2, 2011 | Updated 12:51 IST.

UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka are the trustees of the land.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday pulled up the Haryana government for flouting laws to grant 8-acre land to Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust in Gurgaon.

Hearing a petition filed by several petitioners, the high court said it was clear that the state government favoured the trust run by the Gandhi family by exempting the land from the process while acquiring land for development of Sectors 58-63 in Gurgaon's Ullahawas village.

During the hearing of the petitions, it was revealed that the state government released land in favour of Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka are its trustees.

Hearing the petitions on allotment of land to Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust, a division bench comprising Justices Jasbir Singh and Augustine George Masih made strong observations.

The judges said the state had gone "berserk" in acquiring land and warned that "courts are not helpless". The bench remarked that the state had argued the case for over a week, after which it had suddenly decided to reconsider the acquisition.

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BIHAR LAND SCAM: Land given to tractor firm part of scam: RJD!

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August 1, 2011 / By ANAND S.T. DAS, Correspondent, Patna / DC.

The alleged industrial land “scam” in Bihar became wider and murkier on Sunday with the Opposition RJD accusing the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government of allotting land belonging to a state-owned sick PSU to a private tractor manufacturer at a significantly lower price and under questionable circumstances.

Citing the transfer of land of the Fatuha-based Bihar Scooters Limited (BSL) to the Sonalika Group’s tractor manufacturing arm, International Tractors Limited (ITL), in 2009 as an “indisputable instance of gross wrongdoing” by the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA), senior RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui reiterated his party’s demand for a CBI probe into all industrial land allotments in Bihar executed since 2007.

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LAND SCAM: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in the dock over land allotment!

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CNN-IBN / Updated Jul 19, 2011 at 02:00pm IST.

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is under fire for allotting prime real estate in Bihar to relatives of government officials and ministers. IBN7 first exposed the scam unfolding in the Bihar Industrial Development Authority (BIDA).

According to the IBN7 report, Urvashi Sahi, daughter of Bihar's Education Minister PK Sahi has been allotted 87,120 sq ft of land belonging to Bihar Industrial Development Authority.

Rehmat Fatima, daughter of high profile IAS officer and Chief Secretary of the Irrigation Department Afzal Amanullah has also been allotted 87,120 sq ft of land belonging to the state industrial development authority.

Rahul Kumar, son of JD(U) MP Jagdish Sharma has been allotted land for setting up a priavte factory near Hajipur.

Son of BJP MLC Ashok Agarwal has been given land in Forbesganj, the place where four farmers had died as their land was being acquired.

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