Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and 17 others — including former Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Dr Kewal Krishan, and two former Punjab ministers (all three now deceased) — were on Friday discharged in a high-profile corruption and criminal case.
The case was registered by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on the recommendation of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, alleging a scam in granting an exemption for transferring 32.1 acres of prime land of the Amritsar Improvement Trust (AIT) to a private developer.
Mohali Special Judge Jaswinder Singh ordered the discharge of the persons named as accused in the case while accepting the closure report filed by the VB.
Amarinder, who along with others named in the case was present in the court, welcomed the verdict and termed it as “victory of truth”. “It was a political vendetta as the VB had acted on the directions of its then-political masters,” commented the CM.
