The UT Estate Office has come under scanner as the Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that certain interpolations appear to have been made at the EO in a property dispute case. The case,registered by Mohali Police,already stands transferred to UT Police after a High Court order in August. The case assumes significance as one of the accused alleged that a false FIR was registered against him by Mohali Police at the behest of Punjab ADGP (Crime) Sanjiv Gupta. The HC has observed that certain interpolations appear to have been made in the Estate office for which investigation is required to be conducted even in context of the documents available in the EO. The directions were passed on a petition filed by Dinesh Dureja,who was booked by Mohali Police in a case of cheating. Newsline was the first to report that the case probe has been handed over from Mohali Police to UT Police. Justice Ajai Lamba has slammed the UT Police for laxity in not registering an FIR on the complaint given by Dureja on January 17. Dureja alleged that no action was taken by the UT Police for seven months but Mohali Police registered the FIR against him in two days after the ADGP ordered so. In case Chandigarh Police was vigilant and reasonably efficient,the inquiry in the complaint made on January 17 would have been completed in a reasonable period,which ideally should not have travelled beyond 30 days of receipt of the complaint. If the needful had been done by Chandigarh Police,surely,the FIR would have been lodged sometime in February/ March,2011, reads the order.
