Haryana House passes bill to validate land de-licensing

CHANDIGARH: With an aim to grant legitimacy to past actions of town and country planning department since 1975, including de-licensing of land, the Haryana assembly on Wednesday passed a bill to amend and validate the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act. The bill, if assented to by the governor, would come as a relief to the developers of the Gurugram-based Ambience Mall .

The assembly session held in the shadow of Covid-19 was wrapped up in barely three hours.

CHANDIGARH: A Punjab and Haryana high court bench on Wednesday adjourned hearing on the plea of former director general of police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini, who approached the court seeking transfer of Balwant SIngh Multnai disappearance case to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The plea was taken up by the bench of justice Hari Pal Verma, but was adjourned observing that it be heard by the bench which took it up on August 19. The bench of justice Manoj Bajaj on that day had raised questions with regard to maintainability of plea.

Mohali police registered a case against Saini and seven others on May 6 on a complaint from Multani’s brother Palwinder Singh. Multani had disappeared in 1991, during the probe launched to find out perpetrators of a terror attack on Saini. Now, murder charge has been invoked against Saini, who is out on bail.

In the plea, Saini says the FIR is the result of malafide act for him launching probes against Congress leaders, their relatives to unearth big scams due to which he had become an eyesore for the political parties. He has demanded that FIR be quashed or probe transferred to CBI.HTC