Booth allotment: Details sought of action taken on ADC report

Earlier, it was alleged that the report of the then ADC Shergill was one-sided as those who were named in his 700- page report were never cross-examined.

The Scam in short

While probing the allotments made between 2002 and 2007 at the Sector 41 market, P S Shergill had created a furore when he pointed towards the involvement of top politicians and senior officials in the scam.

The report had stated that the scam ran into crores of rupees, including money paid to politicians, police officers and officials of the Estate Office. The inquiry officer had relied entirely on the complainants, Dinesh Sood and Nathu Ram.

After a fire at the Bajwara Rehri Market on May 23, 1989, the first complaint to the estate officer regarding alleged irregularities was made in May 2005. The second complaint was made in November 2005. It was alleged that the list of 119 names was changed into 171 before the draw of lots in 2007. The complainants issued a legal notice to the estate officer in February 2010. The ADC submitted the inquiry report to the DC on February 24, 2011. The administration ordered a thorough probe after it was found that the inquiry had been allegedly conducted in a one-sided manner.

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