No irregularities in allotment of Wakf Board land to my wife-Pankaj Nain,DIG,Anti Corruption Buearo,Haryana .
No irregularities in allotment of Wakf Board land to my wife-Pankaj Nain,DIG,Anti Corruption Buearo,Haryana .
Gustakhi Maaf Haryana-Pawan Kumar Bansal.
“My wife was allotted land since she was highest bidder in the auction.” says Pankaj Nain DIG,Anti Corruption Bureau- Issue of loot of Wakf Board property by influential people.
Our investigation Part -Two.
Responding to our yesterday’s post on above subject, Pankaj Nain has told “Gustakhi Maaf Haryana”,
land is in the name of my wife Megha Chodhary since 2014.
It was initially allotted on three years’ lease but under new provisions, it was given for thirty years in 2017 in auction .It was allotted to my wife being highest bidder .No irregularity is involved and due procedure was followed .
Even I had informed the department .
Lease rent is being paid regularly. As far as Barara ( Ambala)agricultural land is concerned , it was for one year and not renewed .Any body can take on auction and the highest bidder is allotted the land. We have already left Barara-land and Wakf Board is giving it to someone else on lease as per their procedure”.
Megha Chodhary was allotted Wakf land area measuring 281 K-18M situated at village Ugala , Tehsil Barara ,district Ambala as proprietor of
M/s Kesri Farm in the year 2022-23 upto 2024-25 for a period of three years on lease rent of Rs 7,23,075 ( Seven Lac Twenty Thousand Seventy Five only) .Chief Executive Officer in charge ,Legal of Haryana Wakf Board, Ambala cantt vide letter no 1232-33 dated 26 August 2022 wrote to Megha Chaudhry “ In reference to your application submitted by the Estate Officer,Haryana Wakf Board , above land is allotted.The lessee shall cultivate the land as customary in the locality and shall not put it or any part of it ,to any other purpose which are prohibited by the Shariat.
As a professional journalist having no malice against anyone Yours truly have put the version of Pankaj Nain and It is for our enlightened readers to judge whether the deal involves irregularities,
favouritism or anything unethical.
Tailpiece.Wakf Board is den of corruption and loot of its property is going on for last about five decades.Yours truly had carried detailed investigative report about forty two years back in Hindi magazine
“Bhoobharti “ exposing corruption in the Board.At that time Union Minister ,Law,Justice and Wakf, had suspended the Board following allegations of corruption against some of its members.At that time the then Ambala DC,
S.C.Dhosiwal was appointed as Administrator of the Board.
At that time, when yours truly had met Dhosiwal ,he had told me “members and employees of the Board are indulging in open loot.”
Of late, prices of Wakf properties have increased manifold particularly in NCR hence temptation for grabbing.Highly- placed official sources told that if independent probe is conducted in allotment of Wakf properties during last three decades then many skeletons in cup -board of bigwigs will come in open.I had good or bad habit of keeping old record hence could produce old issue of ‘Bhoobharti’ carrying my investigative report on Wakf Board which is still kept in my library .
At that time, I was given cash award of Rs 250 by management of the magazine for my investigative report.To be continued.